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The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Muenzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West, by Scan McMeekin; Yale University Press, 2003, about $60.
EVERYBODY SEEMS agreed that Willi Muenzenberg (1889-1940) was a genius. Arthur Koestler said it repeatedly. David Caute spoke of his "financial genius", Stephen Koch of his "entrepreneurial genius", Richard Krygier and Arnold Beichman of his "propaganda genius". I did my bit too--describing him years ago as an "impresario of genius". So after all that nonsense, it is a relief at last to read Sean McMeekin who says that, if Muenzenberg was any sort of genius at all, it was an evil genius.
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