A Socialist Defector by Victor Grossman

A Socialist Defector by Victor Grossman

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

Grossman, Victor: - Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler, a New York red-diaper baby of the 1930s, joined the Communist Party as a Harvard student. Fleeing the U.S. Army during the McCarthy Era, he swam the Danube River to the Soviet Zone of Austria and was sent to East Germany. There, he studied journalism and became a freelance writer and popular speaker. He was pardoned by the U.S. Army in 1994 and, in 2003, published an autobiography, Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany.

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ISBN 13	9781583677384
ISBN 10	1583677380
Titel	A Socialist Defector
Autor	Victor Grossman
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-02-28
Seitenanzahl	336
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.