Tzouliadis, Tim. The Forsaken. From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia. Second Edition. London, Little Brown, 2008. 16 x 24 cm. 472 pages including photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Preowner’s giftinscription on titlepage.

Includes for example the following chapters: The Joads of Russia / ‘Fordizatsia’ / ‘Spetzarabota’ / The American Brands of a Soviet Genocide/ Thomas Sgovio Redux etc.

In a piece of historical investigation that spans seven decades of political change, Tim Tzouliadis follows these thousands- miners and musicians, farmers and engineers- from Pittsburgh and Detroit and Los Angeles, as their numbers dwindle on an epic and terrible journey. Through official records, memoirs, newspaper reports and interviews, he searches the most closely guarded archive in modern history to reconstruct the emigrants’ story- one of honesty, vitality and idealism brought up against the brutal machinery of repression. His account takes us from bandstands and baseball games to the nightly executions of Stalin’s terror and the killing fields of the Arctic Circle; it exposes the self-serving American diplomats, who refused their countrymen sactuary, as well as the murderous agents of fanaticism; it analyses international relations and economic causes but also finds space to retrieve individual acts of kindness and self-sacrifice.

• Keywords: History · History & Culture
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780316727242
• Inventory Number: 41854AB

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