I Chose Freedom: The Personal Political Life of a Soviet Official is a book by the Soviet Ukrainian defector Viktor Kravchenko. It was a bestseller in USA and Europe. The book was written in 1946 by a defector from the Soviet Union, Victor Kravchenko, and published in 1947. A review was published in the "New York Times" that year. "I Chose Freedom" depicts many episodes in Soviet history, including the Soviet Famine of 1932-1933, the Gulag system, and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939).