A recommended article about a Soviet dissident and an important book he wrote on the ugliness of the Soviet system and how certain Westerners suppressed the truth, including how his book was quashed by an editor at Random House.
ZitatBukovsky’s book might have helped awaken Americans to the reality of Communism. But, as noted, it’s only just now coming out in English. Back in the 1990s it was contracted to Random House, but that publisher’s longtime editorial director, Jason Epstein, according to Bukovsky, tried “to force me to rewrite the whole book from the liberal left political perspective.” In particular, Epstein disapproved of his criticism of various American individuals and organizations that, in Bukovsky’s view, had been useful idiots for the Kremlin.
A period of time which fascinates me and an article too long and too complex to summarize. Hence, recommended.
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