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American Commissar

出版	Chilton Company, Book Division, 1961
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=N0RYAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"American Commisar is the unembroidered story of one who fought first for the political Right, then for the Left. He came to know, long before most of his contemporaries, that Stalinism and modern Communism have very little in common with the classic Marxist doctrine whose ideas of equality so inspired him and many of his fellows in the Twenties and Thirties. ... The road Voros took as told in American Commisar was a curious one. The son of a highly respected middle-class Jewish family in Hungary, educated by the Benedictines, Voros came to America at twenty-one. He spent his first years here working in sweat-shops at starvation wages, spending his precious free hours in libraries and at night courses. It was only after he began to prosper that his interests focused on social injustice, aroused by Heywood Broun's columns on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Contrary to the usual pattern, Voros joined the Communist Party, not in a period of adversity, but when he was prospering; not after the stock market crash, but when the boom was at its height. He joined the party when it consisted of less than 3,000 members, most of them inactive. Again, contrary to usual pattern, he quit the Party after his return from Spain, before the Soviet-Nazi pact, when the Party, at its height of influence, could and did tempt him with all sorts of positions of prestige. One of the prerequisites of waging an effective fight against an infection is learning how the virus gets a foothold and what are the favorable factors for its growth. American Commissar is a powerful antidote against a prevalent ideological virus, especially in those countries where an increasing number of people are now wavering under th impact of Communist promises."--From the dust-jacket flaps.