A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
352 pp, $23 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-738-4
By Victor Grossman (Stephen Wechsler)
Reviewed by Eve Ottenberg
“From the perspective of 2019, it’s often difficult to recall the cold war hysteria over East Germany. It was called a secret police state. Everyone there was said to be oppressively monitored if not actively harassed by the Stasi. For Americans, it epitomized communist tyranny. Then along comes Victor Grossman’s memoir, A Socialist Defector—he fled US anticommunism to East Germany in 1952—and the distortions about East Germany (GDR) go right out the window….”
Read the review at Eve Ottenberg’s blog
Comments are closed.