Up from Bohemia

Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left, by Ronald Radosh (Encounter, 216 pp., $24.95)

RONALD Radosh’s memoir is a valuable addition to the literature of leftist intellectual disillusionment. Its chief distinction may be its author’s sense of humor, which contrasts strongly with the torment and anguish experienced by nearly all his predecessors who made the trek from revolutionism to the discovery that Soviet Communism and its works were a brutal deception.

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Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left, by Ronald Radosh (Encounter, 216 pp., $24.95)

RONALD Radosh’s memoir is a valuable addition to the literature of leftist intellectual disillusionment. Its chief distinction may be its author’s sense of humor, which contrasts strongly with the torment and anguish experienced by nearly all his predecessors who made the trek from revolutionism to the discovery that Soviet Communism and its works were a brutal deception.