The first edition was published by Dial Press in New York City, and was translated by Lola Sachs Dorin.

In 1982, a new translation by Arnold Pomerans of the 1955 German edition was published by Allison and Busby as The Autobiography of George Grosz: A Small Yes and a Big No.

In this chapter, Grosz recounts his five-month tour of Soviet Russia's most famine-stricken areas.

Barbara McCloskey writes in the foreword to the 1998 edition: "Grosz rejects any glimmer of the revolutionary idealism that we might have expected from a young, radicalized artist.

Gloom and suspicion, not optimism and hope, define his vision of the new Soviet regime."