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The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document
of the Cold War
that brings together essays by six important writers
of the twentieth century
on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with
communism.

In describing their own experiences, the authors illustrate
the fate of leftism around the world.

André Gide (France), Richard Wright (the United States),
Ignazio Silone (Italy), Stephen Spender (England),
Arthur Koestler (Germany), and Louis Fischer, an American
foreign correspondent,
all tell how their search for the betterment of humanity led them
to communism, and the personal agony and revulsion which then
caused them to reject it.

David Engerman's new foreword to this work
recounts the tumultuous events of the era, providing essential
background. It also describes the book's origins and impact,
the influence of communism in American intellectual life,

and how the events described in The God That Failed continue to
affect public discourse today.

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