DOUBLE LIVES

Stalin, Willi Muenzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals
OUT OF PRINT
by Stephen Koch

ISBN#978-1-929631-20-9 • paper 2004

$ 19.00

This is a completely revised and updated edition of a masterful and sweeping account, tracing the effectiveness of Soviet propaganda within intellectual circles in Western Europe and America, from Lenin to Stalin.

For the first time, the subterranean role of Stalin's propaganda agents is explored in depth.

Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman, André Malraux, Maxim Gorky, André Gide, and Arthur Koestler are among a host of literary and academic intellectuals who were targets for the Soviet Union's mighty propaganda machine, led by the legendary Willi Münzenberg, who played a key part in recruiting and manipulating the best among Western intellectuals, duping them into supporting various causes of the Soviet Union.