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. The...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| 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."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781583677407 1583677402 1583677410 9781583677414 |