Author
Kravchenko wrote a memoir I Chose Freedom containing extensive revelations on collectivization, Soviet prison camps and the use of penal labor which came at a time of growing tension between the Soviet Union and the West. Its publication was met with vocal attacks by the Soviet Union and by international Communist parties. Kravchenko refused to give full credit for editorial assistance from respected journalist Eugene Lyons, instead referring to Lyons as an anonymous "translator."
Kravchenko's lesser-known memoir, I Chose Justice (1950), mainly covered his "trial of the century" in France.
Read more about this topic: Victor Kravchenko (defector)
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