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- Book Title
- Socialist Defector : From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
- ISBN
- 9781583677391
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Education, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Socialist Defector : from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Subject
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Cultural Heritage, Europe / Germany, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, Political, Higher
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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The rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the German Democratic Republic told in personal detail by activist and writer Victor Grossman The circumstances that impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence were 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, in a panic, swam across the Danube River from the Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. Fate - i.e., the Soviets - landed him in East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he remained, observer and participant, husband and father, as he watched the rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the GDR socialist experiment. A Socialist Defector is the story, told in rare, personal detail, of an activist and writer who grew up in the U.S. free-market economy; spent thirty-eight years in the GDR's nationally owned, centrally administered economy; and continues to survive, given whatever the market can bear in today's united Germany. Having been a freelance journalist and traveling lecturer - and the only person in the world to hold diplomas from both Harvard and the Karl Marx University - Grossman is able to offer insightful, often ironic, reflections and reminiscences, comparing the good and bad sides of life in all three of the societies he has known. His account focuses especially on the socialism he saw and lived - the GDR's goals and achievements, its repressive measures and stupidities - which, he argues, offers lessons now in our search for solutions to the grave problems facing our world. This is a fascinating and unique historical narrative; political analysis told with jokes, personal anecdotes, and without bombast.
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Publisher
Monthly Review Press
ISBN-10
1583677399
ISBN-13
9781583677391
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038489307
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Socialist Defector : from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Cultural Heritage, Europe / Germany, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, Political, Higher
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Education, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
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Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-058321
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
943.4087092
Lc Classification Number
Dd287.7.G75a3 2019
Copyright Date
2019
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