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Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
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Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War Hardcover - 2009

by John V. Fleming

The subject of this work consists of four influential books that had informedthe great political struggle known as the Cold War: "Darkness at Noon, Out ofthe Night, I Chose Freedom," and "Witness."


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The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian journalist and polymath intellectual; Out of the Night (1941), by Jan Valtin, a German sailor and labor agitator; I Chose Freedom (1946), by Victor Kravchenko, a Soviet engineer; and Witness (1952), by Whittaker Chambers, an American journalist. The authors were ex-Communist Party members whose bitter disillusionment led them to turn on their former allegiance in literary fury. Koestler was a rapist, Valtin a thug. Kravchenko, though not a spy, was forced to live like one in America. Chambers was a prophet without honor in his own land. Three of the four had been underground espionage agents of the Comintern. All contemplated suicide, and two of them achieved it. John V. Fleming's humane and ironic narrative of these grim lives reveals that words were the true driving force behind the Cold War.

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  • Title Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
  • Author John V. Fleming
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 364
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, NY
  • Date 2009-08-01
  • Features Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393069259 / 0393069257
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Reading level 1270
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Anti-communist movements, Koestler, Arthur
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009007113
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2009, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2010, Page 166
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