A Socialist Defector

From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee

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Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe during the McCarthy Era, left his barracks in Bavaria one day in 1952, and swam across the Danube River from the Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. The Soviets moved him to East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he remained, observer and participant, husband and father, as he watched the rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the GDR socialist experiment.--Provided by publisher Circumstances impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence: especially the icy pressures of the McCarthy Era. Grossman - a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and, briefly, as a factory worker - left his barracks in Bavaria one August day in 1952, and
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Schrijver
Grossman, Victor
Titel
A Socialist Defector
Uitgever
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Jaar
2019
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
336
Gewicht
390 gr
EAN
9781583677384
Afmetingen
210 x 140 x 23 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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