Lew, one of the most disturbing and challenging books to the court historian status quo regarding the crucial period between the First and Second World Wars is Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West, The Free Press/Macmillian, Inc., 1994 (republished as Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals, Enigma Books, 2004). Professor Koch meticulously details the manipulation by the Soviets’ master propagandist Willi Münzenberg of thousands of European and American progressive intellectuals in the inner-war period of the 1920s and 1930s by his vast publishing network … Continue reading Willi Münzenberg’s Intellectual Progeny