"I"m not a fellow traveler ...". Thomas Mann and the Soviet Union

During emigration in the United States from 1938 to 1952, Thomas Mann, like many other European immigrants, was under the supervision of American security services. The fact that the competent services of the Soviet Union began to closely closely follow him much earlier. The circumstances of his life and work have been well known to them since the twenties. What is the reason for such a close interest in the advice in the "bourgeois" writer-modernist? The interest was mutual. The attitude to the revolution and Soviet power since 1917 largely determined the views of Thomas Mann.
The task of this book is, in particular, on the basis of little -known archival materials, to identify the causes and motives of the "Platonic", but inextricable connection between the author of the Magic Mountain and the Soviet state