Double Lives by Stephen Koch

Double Lives 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 and Brecht. Koch examines the role played by these writers in Soviet propaganda and espionage.

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Double Lives by Stephen Koch

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).
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ISBN 13 9780002555166
ISBN 10 0002555166
Title Double Lives
Author Stephen Koch
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1995-01-09
Number of pages 352
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