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“Passionate and entertaining account of GDR Socialism”: People’s Voice reviews “A Socialist Defector”

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 12: A man celebrates on the Berlin wall on November 12, 1989 in Berlin, Germany.(Photo by Pool CHUTE DU MUR BERLIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 12: A man celebrates on the Berlin wall on November 12, 1989 in Berlin, Germany.(Photo by Pool CHUTE DU MUR BERLIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
352 pp, $23 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-738-4
By Victor Grossman

Reviewed by Tim Pelzer

“Thirty-one years ago the Berlin Wall came down and the working class in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, voted to merge with capitalist West Germany. In A Socialist Defector: from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee veteran journalist Victor Grossman provides insight into why the GDR’s 41-year experiment with socialism did not last. He describes the ups and downs of the former GDR, spicing it up with many interesting details of life before and after the Berlin Wall….”

Read the review at People’s Voice: Canada’s Leading Socialist Paper

A Socialist Defector

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