I Chose Freedom

I Chose Freedom: The Personal Political Life of a Soviet Official is a book by the Soviet Ukrainian defector Viktor Kravchenko. It was a bestseller in USA and Europe. The book was written in 1946 by a defector from the Soviet Union, Victor Kravchenko, and published in 1947. A review was published in the New York Times that year.[1] I Chose Freedom depicts many episodes in Soviet history, including the Soviet Famine of 1932-1933, the Gulag system, and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939).

First edition (publ. Scribners)

The success of I Chose Freedom can be largely credited to the author's career as a British propaganda asset, and the heavy support the book received from the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the UK Foreign Office which specialised in disinformation, anti-communism, and pro-colonial propaganda.[2][3] The British government, through the IRD, bought the foreign rights to I Chose Freedom and then deployed their agents to promote both the author and its works both within Britain and across the globe.[4]

It was published:

  • 73 times in English
  • 42 times in French
  • 28 times in German
  • 27 times in Spanish [5]
  • Several times in Ukrainian [6][7]

Western researchers often refer to it.[8][9][10][11][12][13]

References
  1. "I CHOSE FREEDOM REVIEWED BY THE NYT - New York City April 1946". sites.google.com.
  2. Mitter, Rana; Major, Patrick (2005). Across the Block: Cold War Cultural and Social History. Taylor & Francis e-library: Frank Cass and Company Limited. p. 125.
  3. Jenks, John (2006). British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 132.
  4. Jenks, John (2006). British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 71.
  5. Kravchenko, Victor (1946). Yo escogí la libertad; In the area of policy and politics, it is a fundamental task of the Emigration of the U.R.S.S. en Washington (in Spanish). Madrid: Nos. OCLC 21958815.
  6. "Formats and Editions of <>. [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  7. Kravchenko, Victor (1948). I͡A vybrav voli͡u : osobyste ĭ politychne z͡hyttii͡a sovi͡etsʹkoho uri͡adovi͡a. Toronto: Druk. "Ukraïnsʹkoho robitnyka ". OCLC 977648184.
  8. Parry-Giles, Shawn J. (2002). The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275974633.
  9. Снайдер, Тимоти (2015). Кровавые земли: Европа между Гитлером и Сталиным (in Russian). Дуліби. ISBN 9789668910975.
  10. Overy, Richard (2005-04-28). The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 9780141912240.
  11. Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1999-03-04). Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199839247.
  12. Miner, Steven Merritt (2003-10-16). Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807862124.
  13. Lee, Stephen J. (2005-06-20). Stalin and the Soviet Union. Routledge. ISBN 9781134665747.
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