{"product_id":"2026200010549-secondhand-child-of-the-revolution","title":"Child Of The Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: paperback. Page Condition: Yellowed but otherwise in good condition. Markings: previous owner on FEP. Binding condition: Good - some fading on spine; lettering now yellow. Usual aging \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew memoirs capture the seismic rupture between ideological faith and brutal reality with the visceral intimacy of Wolfgang Leonhard's Child of the Revolution. Born to a German Communist mother, Leonhard was raised within the Soviet system itself — educated in Comintern schools, groomed as a loyal instrument of Stalin's apparatus — only to become one of its most articulate and courageous defectors. His account chronicles the inner world of Soviet communism from the perspective of a true believer who watched, with mounting horror, as the machinery of the revolution devoured its own children.\n\nLeonhard's prose is precise and unflinching, presenting a portrait of totalitarianism not from the outside looking in, but from deep within its ideological core — a vantage point few Western readers had ever encountered. Child of the Revolution stands as a landmark of Cold War testimony, illuminating the psychological cost of absolute political devotion and the extraordinary courage required to abandon it. For anyone who seeks to understand how ordinary people become instruments of authoritarian regimes, this book raises a question that lingers long after the final page: at what point does loyalty become complicity?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130702602459,"sku":"2026200010549-SECONDHAND","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f739db26-d045-4746-8e61-ab7fe3a91ed7.png?v=1786588922","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010549-secondhand-child-of-the-revolution","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}