After Hitler had taken power Sperber was taken to jail , but was released after a few weeks on the grounds that he was an Austrian citizen . He emigrated first to Yugoslavia and then in 1934 to Paris where he worked for the Communist International with Willi Münzenberg . In 1938 he left the party because of the Stalinist purges within the party . In his writing he started to deal with totalitarianism and the role of the individual within society ( '' Zur Analyse der Tyrannis '' )
Stalinist purges
Great Purge
Manès Sperber