About Feuchtwanger's pro-Russian report, which still provokes to this day. Lion Feuchtwanger was received with great honor during his visit to the Soviet Union around the turn of 1936/1937. The exclusive interview that Stalin granted the author and the invitation to participate in the second Moscow show trial demonstrate the high political status attributed to the writer. However, the hosts' attentiveness also revealed their fear of a second case like André Gide, whose recently published critical book on Russia had caused outrage in the Soviet Union as well as among European leftist intellectuals. Feuchtwanger himself referred to his travel report "Moscow 1937" as a "pro-Bolshevik book" and faced numerous attacks for his uncritical stance. Anne Hartmann, however, illustrates through a wealth of personal letters and diary entries by Feuchtwanger.