TY - BOOK ID - 139033588 TI - A socialist defector PY - 2019 SN - 1583677410 9781583677407 1583677402 9781583677414 9781583677384 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Defectors KW - Journalists KW - Americans KW - Communists KW - Cold War. KW - Grossman, Victor, KW - Harvard University KW - Alumni and alumnae KW - Germany (East) KW - Description and travel. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139033588 AB - "Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe during the McCarthy Era, left his barracks in Bavaria one day in 1952, and swam across the Danube River from the Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. The Soviets moved him to East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he remained, observer and participant, husband and father, as he watched the rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the GDR socialist experiment."--Provided by publisher. ER -