Victor Grossman

Broschiertes Buch

A Socialist Defector

From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee

Beschreibung

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 â a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and, briefly, as a factory worker â left his barracks in Bavaria one August day in 1952, and

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Monthly Review Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781583677384
• ISBN-10: 1583677380
• Artikelnr.: 52419502