Ilya Ehrenburg-Between East and West

The most morally compromising episodes of Ilya Ehrenburg's career took place at the outset of the Cold War. The wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union broke down, leaving the Soviet people increasingly isolated and subject to unrelenting propaganda against Western culture and society. Ilya Ehrenburg played a double game. He became a principal spokesman in the West for the Stalinist regime, defending Soviet policies and promoting the Soviet-inspired Partisans of Peace movement. At the same time, he used his contacts to make Western literature and art more accessible to a Soviet audience.