Word: ex-communist
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...ex-Communist's absorbing memoirs of his misadventures as a revolutionary...
...Minerva, by Gustav Regler. The author, an ex-Communist, writes an absorbing memoir of his misadventures as a revolutionary, and in the process throws much light on 20th century history...
...Minerva, by Gustav Regler. The author, an ex-Communist, writes an absorbing memoir of his misadventures as a revolutionary, and in the process throws much light on 20th century history...
...Minerva, by Gustav Regler. This first-rate memoir of an ex-Communist, far from the customary exercise in self-justification, tells of the author's misadventures in the century's wars and revolutions, offers insight into the politics and morals...
...Communist Party, which he joined with the simple feeling that "things can't go on like this." There is a good deal of spiritual agonizing and plain blundering before he winds his way out and comes to terms with reality. But, unlike so many other ex-Communist apologias, this is not an exercise in self-justification; Regler does not claim to have been "betrayed," but painfully pinpoints his own moral ambiguities as a pious prisoner in the "false monastery" of Marx...