Later Years
A lifelong democratic socialist, Kravchenko felt increasingly alienated from American politics, both from the anti-socialist Right and a decreasingly anti-communist Left. He then chose different ways to counteract exploitation and Stalinist development by moving to Bolivia and Peru. These included investing his profits made from I Chose Freedom into an attempt to organize poor farmers into new collectives. His South American ventures failed, due to official obstruction and murky activities by business associates. Sympathetic biographer Gary Kern suspects the KGB played a role.
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