A socialist defector : from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee /
Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe during the McCarthy Era, left his barracks in Bavaria one day in 1952, and swam across the Danube River from the Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. The Soviets moved him to East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe during the McCarthy Era, left his barracks in Bavaria one day in 1952, and swam across the Danube River from the Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. The Soviets moved him to 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. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 352 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781583677384 1583677380 9781583677391 1583677399 9781583677407 1583677402 |