Comrade Huppert: A Poet in Stalin's World

This biography of a twentieth-century poet "deftly trac[es] Hugo Huppert's improbable path from Jewish Galicia to Soviet Moscow to postwar Vienna" (Choice).
After discovering the autobiography of the Austrian communist and writer Hugo Huppert (1902–1982), historian George Huppert became absorbed in the life and work of this man, a Jew, perhaps a relative, who was born a few months after George's father and grew up just miles away. Hugo seemed to embody a distinctly central European experien...