The Education of a True Believer

by Lev Kopelev

Lev Kopelev grew up a committed Communist after the 1917 revolution in Russia only to be disillusioned little-by-little, and finally, on the eve of World War II, to be interned in a gulag. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060124768
• ISBN13: 9780060124762
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Review from Foreign Affairs, 1980

Lev Kopelev, a well-known Soviet dissenter who continues to publish in the West, and to live in the Soviet Union, tells the story of his early years when he was an enthusiastic supporter of Stalin's regime and was only gradually disillusioned as the discrepancy between his inculcated beliefs and the evidence before his eyes became more and more apparent.