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The forsaken : an American tragedy in Russia / Tim Tzouliadis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tzouliadis, Tim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans--Soviet Union--History.
- Americans.
- Immigrants--Soviet Union.
- Immigrants.
- History.
- United States--Relations--Soviet Union.
- United States.
- Relations.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Relations--United States.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
- Stalin, Joseph.
- Physical Description:
- 436 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- The story of a little-known group of émigrés, Americans who went to Russia during the 1930s in the hope that the Communist promise of a better life was a reality--only to find xenophobia, paranoia and ultimately, in many cases, imprisonment or death in Stalin's Terror.
- Contents:
- The Joads of Russia
- Baseball in Gorky Park
- "Life has become more joyful!"
- "Fordizatsia"
- "The Lindbergh of Russia"
- "The captured Americans"
- "The arrival of spring"
- The terror, the terror
- Spetzrabota
- "A dispassionate observer"
- "Send views of New York"
- "Submission to Moscow"
- Kolyma znaczit smert
- The Soviet gold rush
- "Our selfless labor will restore us to the family of workers"
- June 22nd, 1941
- The American brands of a Soviet genocide
- An American vice-president in the heart of darkness
- "To see cruelty and burn not"
- "Release by the green procurator"
- The second generation
- Awakening
- "Citizen of the United States of America, allied officer Dale"
- Smert Stalina spaset Rossiiu
- Freedom and deceit
- The truth at last
- "The two Russias"
- Thomas Sgovio redux.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-416) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594201684
- 1594201684
- OCLC:
- 191697339
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