Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals

by Stephen Koch

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As part of its plan to achieve a worldwide communist revolution, the USSR employed a German communist and publisher to recruit Western intellectuals - among them Gide, Hemingway, Malraux, Dos Passos, Brecht, Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman. Koch examines the role played by these writers in the covert and propaganda operations carried out by the USSR between the 1930s and the 1960s. He shows how many idealistic sympathizers, motivated by anti-fascist feelings, became embroiled in a web of terror and deceit and found themselves party to the most debased of Soviet actions, such as the collaboration between Hitler and Stalin in the elimination of their political enemies (a secret clause of the Nazi-Soviet pact).
  • ISBN10 1566492092
  • ISBN13 9781566492096
  • Publish Date 1 July 2003 (first published 27 December 1993)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Welcome Rain Publishers
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 432
  • Language English