Socialist Defector
Subtitle: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781583677391
Subjects: Germany, history
Description: "Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe during the McCarthy Era, left his barracks in Bavaria one day in 1952, and swam across the Danube River from the Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. The Soviets moved him to East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he remained, observer and participant, husband and father, as he watched the rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the GDR socialist experiment."--Provided by publisher.