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Table of Contents: “…A national debate -- Memorial and its opponents -- Conclusion: Forty years after -- New light on the Moscow trials.…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Farewell to Moscow -- The Moscow trials and confessions -- Mr. Lloyd George -- Ebro: river of blood -- The fall of France -- Just before Christmas: 1938 -- The death of a nation -- A yachtful of diamonds and pearls -- Settling down in America -- Europe slips into war -- Europe at war.…”

Table of Contents: “…Early scene -- High school years-purgatory and triumph -- Discovery of the socialist dream -- College years -- Educational turning point: morris cohen -- Intermezzo -- Columbia days and john dewey -- Encounter with espionage -- Weimar republic: the writing on the wall -- Moscow in 1929 -- Depression and the intellectuals -- Philosophy on the ninth floor -- Grim discovery -- Breaking with communism -- American workers party -- Academy and anti-semitism -- Moscow trials -- Committee for cultural freedom -- Strange case of whittaker chambers -- Second world war and its casualties -- On the eve of the cold war -- God and the professors -- Bertrand russell: portrait for memory -- Communist peace offensive -- On the battlefield of philosophy -- American committee for cultural freedom -- Congress for cultural freedom -- My running debate with albert einstein -- Geniemoral: bertolt brecht -- Academic "witch hunt": setting the record straight -- Inside partisan review: the radical comedians -- Tales out of school -- Walpurgisnacht at new york university: the academic ethic in abeyance -- Cold war and the intellectuals -- Twilight years -- Reaffirmations.…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Farewell to Moscow -- The Moscow trials and confessions -- Mr. Lloyd George -- Ebro: river of blood -- The fall of France -- Just before Christmas: 1938 -- The death of a nation -- A yachtful of diamonds and pearls -- Settling down in America -- Europe slips into war -- Europe at war.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Some summaries of Russian problems (Soviet democratism ; The Moscow trials ; The isolation of Russia, Munich) ; Last look at Europe (Some Slavic diplomatic portraits ; London in 1939 : April ; Moscow in 1939 : May ; Warsaw in 1939 : June ; the German-Soviet Pact) ; Russia acts alone (The march into Poland ; Finland ; The Baltic States ; Russia and America ; Russia and Germany, the German attack).…”

Table of Contents: “…At my post in Greece -- The trap -- In hiding -- Childhood -- War and Revolution -- Invasions -- Wanderings -- Civil war -- Red cadets -- Lessons under fire -- We did not take Warsaw -- The war college of the red star -- The college in time of crisis -- The Bolshevik mission to the feudal orient -- From the Afghan frontier to the Café de Pegasse -- The beginnings of Soviet diplomacy -- Mutterings before the storm -- Born into sorrow -- At grips with diplomatic problems -- Persia will not be a republic -- Teheran-Athens-Rome-Berlin-Moscow -- The struggle against Trotskyism and foreign stationery -- The triumph of the "party unity" -- Paris, the great plan, and the battle for gold -- In the bourgeois encirclement -- Milan-London-Brussels -- Realities under the five-year plan -- Bureaucratic degeneration -- Old friends meet -- Trials of an arms exporter -- The birth of parachute troops -- An automobile executive in the meshes of bureaucracy -- "Life has become more joyful, comrades" -- Stalin as I knew him -- The one precious life -- A diplomat's paradise -- Living through the first Moscow trial -- My last trip to Russia -- The fats flourish under a dictator -- The socialist dream ends in firing squads.…”

Table of Contents: “…The leader, the enemy, war and celebration : authoritarianism practices compared : Stalin and Ulmanis in Latvia's authoritarian culture -- USSR--the land of workers and violence : a dual perception -- Cultural practices of European dictatorships in the 30s -- Stalin and Ulmanis : a functional comparison of leaders -- The enemy : communism and the war of civilizations -- Moscow trials--the globalized political show of the 30s -- Chapter six. …”
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