Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West. From: National Review | Date: February 21, 1994| Author: Rodosh, Ronald | COPYRIGHT 1994 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas against the West, by Stephen Koch

(Free Press, 404 pp., $24.95)

THE name Willi Munzenberg is familiar to readers of Arthur Koestler and Manes Sperber, writers whose chronicles of European and German Communism first told us of his work on behalf of the Comintern. But it has been the unique task of Stephen Koch, who was able to utilize material hidden until recently in the archives of the former S...

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