![]() Editor Crossman said in the book's introduction: "The Kronstadt rebels called for Soviet power free from Bolshevik dominance" (p. The book contains Fischer's definition of " Kronstadt" as the moment in which some communists or fellow travellers decide not just to leave the Communist Party but to oppose it as anti-communists. At the time Chambers was still employed by Time magazine, having not yet gone public with his charges against Alger Hiss, and so declined to participate. Richard Crossman, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament who conceived and edited the volume, at one point approached the famous American ex-communist Whittaker Chambers about contributing an essay to the book. ![]() ![]() The common theme of the essays is the authors' disillusionment with and abandonment of communism. ![]() The God that Failed is a 1949 collection of six essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright. First edition as published by Harper & Brothers, 1949 ![]()
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