In this book, six intellectuals describe the journey into communism, and the return

Engerman's introduction to this work recounts how the collection was assembled, how the lessons of the Cold War remain vital to the debate of current events, and how the influence of communism was able to reshape the direction of ...

It also describes the book's origins and impact, the influence of communism in American intellectual life, and how the events described in The God That Failed continue to affect public discourse today.

A TLS Companion Ferdinand Mount. THE GOD THAT FAILED The God That Failed contains six ... Communism as the one then existing movement in which they might help to put ... Studies in Communism , by Arthur Koestler and others [ February 3 , 1950 ] ...

... The God That Failed: Six Studies in Communism (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950), p. 8. Robert Warshow, “The Legacy of the '30s: Middle-Class Mass Culture and the Intellectuals' Problem,” Commentary 4 (December 1947). See Paul Hollander ...

... The God That Failed : Six Studies in Communism ( London : Hamish Hamilton , 1950 ) , 16 . 99. Cf. John Patrick Diggins , Up from Communism : Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History ( New York : Harper & Row , 1975 ) , 218 ...