Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist

by Robert Levy and Robert Levy

Book Overview

In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes the picture dramatically, revealing a woman of remarkable strength, dominated by conflict and contradiction far more than by dogmatism. Telling the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520223950
• ISBN13: 9780520223950
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"