On a sweltering June evening in 1937, American Juliet Stuart Poyntz
left her boardinghouse in Manhattan and walked toward Central Park,
three short blocks away. She was never seen or heard from again.
Seven months passed before a formal missing person's report was
made, since Poyntz worked for the Soviet Secret Police and her
friends (many of whom were anti-Stalinist radicals in the United
States) were scared to alert authorities. Her disappearance
coincided with Josef Stalin's purges of his political enemies in
the Soviet Union and it was feared that Poyntz was a casualty of
Soviet brutality.In Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?, Denise M. Lynn
argues that Poyntz's sudden disappearance was the final straw for
many on the American political left, who then abandoned Marxism and
began to embrace anti-communism. In the years to follow, the left
crafted narratives of her disappearance that became central to the
Cold War. While scholars have thoroughly analyzed the influence of
the political right in the anti-communism of this era, this
captivating and compelling study is unique in exploring the
influence of the political left.
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