The Stalinist Becomes Bogomil: Revised Edition

By Michael Yarbrough

Book Overview

At war s end, will there be a Communist revolution in Italy (and France)? This is the question impinging on the very life, the dream and lethal conspiracy of a (French-Canadian) American visionary serving in the American Army in Italy in the closing days of World War II...and the opening days of the Cold War. He does not suspect another question: Has Stalin exerted himself to block such a revolution? Could the victorious Yugoslavs and the insurgent Greeks be defying Stalin? His dream: The revolutionary unification of Europe, an intellectuals' Europe secure from depression and world war, resurgent in power and culture. *A paean to internationalist-inspired high treason as well as a cautionary tale against it. *A metaphor of a spiritual ordeal not only transfixing the epoch of the Cold War, but in different guises our own as well. *Passionate, heroic, brooding, romantic, sinister, threatening, poignant, tender, wildly ribald. *A national epic for an Italy -- even a Europe...never to be born. Its hero: Jean LeFey, a professorial blend of Captain Ahab, Lenin, and Woody Allen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1796059307
• ISBN13: 9781796059304
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Xlibris Us
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"