What's Left? What's Right? A Political Journey via North Korea and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

This memoir shows how a proactive young woman was drawn to the ideals behind Communism to try to create a better world. Muriel Seltman shares the political journey traveled in the mid-twentieth century by her and her husband, two hopeful idealists who joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1952 hoping to put their shoulders to the wheel in the task of changing the world for the better. They went to work abroad, initially in North Korea and then in China, where they unexpectedly experienced the early part of the Cultural Revolution.

Muriel Seltman remembers and describes the motivations, experiences, and painful mental struggles of herself and her husband in the face of the reality that they experienced. She explains the ideas vs. reality of Communism as she saw them acted out, offering a unique and detailed first-hand account of life in North Korea and China during this tumultuous time. Readers interested in history, Marxism, Communism, or the Chinese Cultural Revolution may find this memoir too interesting to put down.