question_answer 18)

What does The God That Failed refer to?    

Answer:

The God That Failed, was a book which had six essays by six eminent men about their disillusionment with Communism. The writers were Andre Gide, Richard Wright, Ignazio Silone, Arthur Koestler, Louis Fischer and Stephen Spender. The God That Failed was their disillusionment with Communism which had initially seemed a promising idea, a means of deliverance.