AMERICAN COMMISSAR (477 pp.)Sandor VorosChilton ($4.95).
Many men with natural distinction of mindArthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Whittaker Chambers and Gustav Regler have tried to read the Marxist riddle. By what stages does the self-sacrificing zeal of the idealist recruit to Communism become converted into the coldly inhuman amorality of the full-fledged apparatus man in the party's higher echelons? What turns the Utopian dream of universal brotherhood into the nightmare reality of the police state?
Sandor Voros, a Hungarian-born, American ex-Communist, adds nothing but corroboration to their impressive testimony; indeed, if his book has a...
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