Young Voices in Soviet Literature: One of a series of research papers on subjects of interest to youth and students
by [WOMEN] [STEINEM, Gloria] INDEPENDENT SERVICE FOR INFORMATION ON THE VIENNA YOUTH FESTIVAL
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Cambridge: Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival, 1959. First Edition. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; 84pp. Wrappers a bit toned, else Very Good or better. Having struggled to find work in New York City, 25-year-old Gloria Steinem moved to Cambridge in 1959 to assume the position of co-director of the anti-Communist program the Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival. The Service, masquerading as a private enterprise whose aim was to send democracy- and capitalism-loving American youth to the communist-run Festival, was funded by an anonymous donor later revealed to be the CIA (though Steinem would have been aware of this from the start). The present pamphlet was issued a month before the Festival began, and provides a detailed critique of the quality of Soviet literature: "The trouble with Soviet literature, as Ilya Ehrenburg sees it, is that Soviet writers say things they do not believe" (p. 5).
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43493
- Title
- Young Voices in Soviet Literature: One of a series of research papers on subjects of interest to youth and students
- Author
- [WOMEN] [STEINEM, Gloria] INDEPENDENT SERVICE FOR INFORMATION ON THE VIENNA YOUTH FESTIVAL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Communism; HUAC, Cold War, Red Scare;
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