Title of a novel by the East-German author Stefan Heym (1913–2001). The book, which was published in West Germany in 1979, refers to a series of show trials, party expulsions, and chicanery that took place in the GDR of the 1950s, some of which had distinctly anti-Jewish undertones. Thus, the novel expresses a theme central to Heym’s work as a whole: the danger posed by Stalinism to the advancement of socialism. Collin stirred up significant political disaffection in the GDR and could not be p…