Victor Grossman, author of autobiography, "Crossing the Line: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War and Life in East Germany, " photo of Grossman lecturing in the GDR in the mid-60's, holding up album jacket of Joan Baez.
Blurbed by Pete Seeger...and Alan Wald, who Lacny and Doss would call a, "Trotskyite wrecker."
Samizdat of autobiographies by such as Comintern cadre, A. Ciliga, "The Russian Enigma, " about his GULAG imprisonment, circulated in the 60's and former Member of the PCF CC in the twenties, Boris Souvraine, pioneering bio of Stalin, from the late 20's. circulted widely as well. For much on Souvraine and other figures of the anti-Stalinist left (whether ex-Communist or not) see, "The Passing Of An Illusion, " by former French Communist, F. Furet.
Michael Pugliese