{"product_id":"2026100006941-secondhand-the-education-of-a-true-believer","title":"The Education Of A True Believer","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st gb ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good         ,          price clipped\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean and bright copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of Soviet memoir literature, The Education of a True Believer chronicles the harrowing ideological journey of Lev Kopelev, a young Ukrainian Jew who embraced Stalinist communism with fervent, unquestioning devotion during the 1920s and 1930s. With unflinching honesty, Kopelev recounts his willing participation in the brutal collectivization campaigns that devastated the Ukrainian peasantry, a period of mass starvation and state-sanctioned violence he once justified in the name of revolutionary progress. The memoir's power lies in its author's unflinching self-examination — a man who was both perpetrator and, ultimately, victim of the totalitarian system he served, later imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp for acts of wartime humanity. Written with the moral gravity and literary precision of a man who survived to reckon with his own complicity, the narrative stands as one of the most searching and devastating accounts of how ideology can corrupt conscience and transform an idealistic young man into an instrument of oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887910465755,"sku":"2026100006941-SECONDHAND","price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/bb6e95fa-2fd8-4669-9308-2a1c4b3ca638.png?v=1781748773","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006941-secondhand-the-education-of-a-true-believer","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}