André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and, at times, a spokesman for gay rights {{dubious}}. A renown literary experimenter and socially involved man, Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in-between the two World Wars. In 1947, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Russia

During the 1930s he briefly became a communist, but became disillusioned after his visit to Soviet Union. His criticism of communism caused him to lose many of his socialist friends, especially when he made a clean break with it in Retour de L'U.R.S.S. in 1936. He was also a contributor to The God That Failed.

Related Topics:
1930s - Communist - Soviet Union - Socialist - 1936 - The God That Failed

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