Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba, 1928-78 - Hardcover

Hollander, Paul

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9780195029376: Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba, 1928-78

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ISBN 10: 0195029372 ISBN 13: 9780195029376

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1981

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Analyzes the attitudes of intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Mary McCarthy toward political systems and social conditions in communist countries

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Review:

"A horribly funny book ... to be kept close at hand and reread whenever we are told of a land where ... the human soul is re-engineered and human nature is uplifted." "--The Washington Post"

"A horribly funny book...to be kept close at hand and reread whenever we are told of a land where...the human soul is re-engineered and human nature uplifted."

--The Washington Post

"Professor Hollander has produced a book of illumination which is to a high degree entertaining...[he] brings to his task a useful detachment."

--Edward Crankshaw, The Observer (London)

"An important and timely book that will be widely read, reread and debated for years."

--William J. Wilson. University of Chicago

"A horribly funny book...to be kept close at hand and reread whenever we are told of a land where...the human soul is re-engineered and human nature uplifted."

--The Washington Post

"Professor Hollander has produced a book of illumination which is to a high degree entertaining...[he] brings to his task a useful detachment."

--Edward Crankshaw, The Observer (London)

"An important and timely book that will be widely read, reread and debated for years."

--William J. Wilson. University of Chicago

-A horribly funny book...to be kept close at hand and reread whenever we are told of a land where...the human soul is re-engineered and human nature uplifted.-

--The Washington Post

-Professor Hollander has produced a book of illumination which is to a high degree entertaining...[he] brings to his task a useful detachment.-

--Edward Crankshaw, The Observer (London)

-An important and timely book that will be widely read, reread and debated for years.-

--William J. Wilson. University of Chicago

About the Author:

Paul Hollander is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and center associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. His books include Political Pilgrims, The Many Faces of Socialism, and Soviet and American Society: A Comparison.

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