Travels With Ivan: How The Soviet Secret Police Monitored U.S. Writer John Steinbeck

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Travels With Ivan: How The Soviet Secret Police Monitored U.S. Writer John Steinbeck
October 27, 2018 08:21 GMT

    By Eduard Andriushchenko
    Robert Coalson

Seventy years ago, as the Cold War was dawning between former World War II allies the United States and the Soviet Union, one of America's most prominent writers, John Steinbeck, and one of the world's most celebrated combat photojournalists, Robert Capa, published A Russian Journal. It was a slim volume billed as "honest reporting, to set down what we saw and heard without editorial comment, without drawing conclusions about things we didn't know sufficiently."

Steinbeck's book, illustrated with Capa's dramatic photographs, was an effort to explore "the great other side."

"It is not the Russian story," the book states, "but simply a Russian story."

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