Stalinism, at its peak, knew that, to complete its world domination, it had to recruit a clandestine army, capable of successfully fighting combat on the propaganda front. To this end, from the beginning of the 1930s, the Soviet leaders entrusted a shadowy man, Willi M???nzenberg, with the task of orchestrating - from London to Paris, from Hollywood to Berlin - an unprecedented campaign of manipulation in favor of the Union. Soviet and the communist dream. It is precisely this dark chapter in the history of the 20th century ...
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Stalinism, at its peak, knew that, to complete its world domination, it had to recruit a clandestine army, capable of successfully fighting combat on the propaganda front. To this end, from the beginning of the 1930s, the Soviet leaders entrusted a shadowy man, Willi M???nzenberg, with the task of orchestrating - from London to Paris, from Hollywood to Berlin - an unprecedented campaign of manipulation in favor of the Union. Soviet and the communist dream. It is precisely this dark chapter in the history of the 20th century that Stephen Koch explores in this masterful book in which intellectuals become spies and spies become agitators of ideas. From Gide to Hemingway, from Dorothy Parker to Bertolt Brecht, from Dos Passos to Malraux and Aragon, there were many intellectuals that M???nzenberg recruited, in a system that worked until the 1960s with extraordinary efficiency. Were they naive idealists? Or were they convinced that communism was the future of humanity? Betrayals, denunciations, manipulated processes and even murders mark this little-known aspect of the Cold War, with an important chapter during the Spanish Civil War.
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