Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals

Double Lives explores the subterranean role of Stalin’s propaganda agents. Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman, André Malraux, Maxim Gorky, and Andre Gide are among a host of great writers who were the targets of Soviet propaganda toward intellectuals. The book describes the key role played by Willi Münzenberg in recruiting and manipulating them.