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Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals
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Double Lives explores the subterranean role of Stalin’s propaganda agents. Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman, André Malraux, Maxim Gorky, and Andre Gide are among a host of great writers who were the targets of Soviet propaganda toward intellectuals. The book describes the key role played by Willi Münzenberg in recruiting and manipulating them.
Paperback, 442 pages
Published
August 1st 2004
by Enigma Books
(first published December 27th 1993)
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Una magnífica obra de divulgación sobre las tramas que ligaban la oficina de propaganda de la Komintern (dirigida por Willi Munzenberg) con las de espías y topos que se extendieron durante los años 20 y 30 del siglo XX. El libro abarca todo el mundo occidental, a ambos lados del Atlántico, haciendo una relación exhaustiva de todos los intelectuales que trabajaban de un modo u otro para proteger y extender el comunismo, según los planes de Lenin y luego Stalin. La historia de la propaganda comuni
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Books like these are hard to fact-check because much of it, by nature, is speculation. Fortunately, the CIA under Hoover got really good at keeping tabs on Russian activity, which ultimately led to Hollywood blacklisting and McCarthyism. But while the CIA understood many individuals to be under the influence of the Soviets, Stalin was really smart and easily manipulated people into doing work for him via propaganda in film, literature, news media, etc.
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Muy interesante incursión en el mundo de las lealtades dobles en la Europa de Entreguerras, así como en los papeles que jugó la inteligencia europea en dichos años
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Stephen Koch is the author of The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction; The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles; Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West; and other books. He previously taught creative writing at Columbia and Princeton universities for nearly twenty years.
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