NEll' FROM THE FREE PRESS
"After decades in which so much writing about the Cold War was forced
through one ideological screen or another, Stephen Koch has written a
thrilling and, what's more, fair book about one of the strangest episodes
of an era. He has handled the portrait of Willi Munzenberg and the gallery
of western intellectuals with the skill of a superb novelist and the rigor of
a true historian. The Cold War will require many more such books until
we really know it."
- David Remnick,
author of Lenin's
Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
DOUBLE LIVES
Spies and Writers
in
tfie Secret Soviet War of
Ideas Against the West
Stephen Koch
The goal was to tum the Russian
revolution into a world revolution, and
the strategy, led by a propaganda genius,
was a masterful campaign to align Western
intellectuals with the shifting policies
of Stalin's Soviet Union. Koch's book
documents how this clandestine army,
although unsuccessful in its attempt to
convert the West to the communist cause,
profoundly affected thirty years of history.
"Meticulously researched and
1994 ISBN: 0-02-918730-3
$24.95
dynamically written...an enthralling
investigation of the manner in which Stalin and the Soviet secret services
manipulated thousands of progressive European and American intellectuals
between the two world wars to promote their sinister and largely hidden
political goals. In the light of Stephen Koch's researches the
Trahison des
Clercs
takes on a whole new meaning, and the history of the 20th Century
cultural movements will never be the same again."
- Michael Scammel,
author of
Solzhenitsyn:A Biography
and a forthcoming biography of Arthur Koestler
''A remarkable work of original investigation. It is mesmerizing reading,
as riveting as a spy thriller. I had supposed that! knew something about
Stalin's war of ideas but, reading Stephen Koch's exciting book, I am forced
to recognize how little knowledge I actually had of the complexity and power
of Russia's covert operation both here and abroad. An indispensable document
for an understanding of the history of our century.' '
- Diana Trilling,
author of
The
Beginning
of the journey
and
We Must March, My Darlings
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