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Lillian Pollak, The Sweetest Dream: Love, Lies, & Assassination.

Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lillian Pollak, The Sweetest Dream: Love, Lies, & Assassination.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Lillian Pollak, The Sweetest Dream: Love, Lies, & Assassination (New York, Bloomington, Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc. 2008)

FEW NOVELS ADDRESS the experience of United States Trotskyism. Harvey Swados's Standing Fast (1970) comes to mind, as do Earl Birney's cross-border reflections in Down the Long Table (1955). Both of these fictional accounts, however, unfold on the margins of American anti-Stalinist politics, the first focusing on the organizational life of Max Shachtman's break from orthodox Trotskyism, the second filtered through the lens of McCarthyism's later impact on a Canadian recruit to dissident communism.

Lillian Pollak has a different perspective and chronology from those of Swados and Birney. Her backdrop is a period of momentous struggles, in the United States and around the...

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