An American journalist, writer and popular speaker, who defected to the USSR in 1952, Victor Grossman has since lived in East Germany, then the reunified Germany, chronicling life, politics and humanity.

Victor's latest book is published by Monthly Review Press and titled "A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee": https://monthlyreview.org/product/a-s...

Recorded at Der Rote Laden, Friedrichshain, Berlin on 3 October 2019.