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The Forsaken : An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia Hardcover - 2008
by Tzouliadis, Timotheos
- Used
A remarkable piece of forgotten history the story of how thousandsof Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs andbetter lives only to meet a tragic, and until now forgotten, end
The Forsaken starts with a photograph of a baseballteam. The year is 1934, the image black and white: two rows ofyoung men, one standing, the other crouching with their armsaround one another's shoulders. They are all somewhere in theirlate teens or twenties, in the peak of health. We know most, ifnot all, of their names: Arthur Abolin, Walter Preeden, VictorHerman, Eugene Peterson. They hail from ordinary workingfamilies from across America Detroit, Boston, New York, SanFrancisco. Waiting in the sunshine, they look just like any otherbaseball team except, perhaps, for the Russian lettering on theiruniforms.
These men and thousands of others, their wives, andchildren were possibly the least heralded migration in Americanhistory. Not surprising, maybe, since in a nation of immigrantsfew care to remember the ones who leave behind the dream.The exiles came from all walks of life. Within their ranks wereCommunists, trade unionists, and radicals of the John Reedschool, but most were just ordinary citizens not overly concernedwere politics. What united them was the hope that drives all emigrants:the search for a better life. And to any one of the millionsof unemployed Americans during the Great Depression, even theharshest Moscow winter could sustain that promise.
Within four years of that June day in Gorky Park,many of the young men in that photograph will be arrested andalong with them unaccounted numbers of their fellow countrymen.As foreign victims of Stalin's Terror, some will be executedimmediately in basement cells or at execution grounds outsidethe main cities. Others will be sent to the 'corrective labor'camps, where they will be starved and worked to death, theirbodies buried in the snowy wasteland. Two of the baseball playerswho survive and whose stories frame this remarkable work ofhistory will be inordinately lucky. This book is the story of thesemens' lives The Forsaken who lived and those who died.
The result of years of groundbreaking research inAmerican and Russian archives, The Forsaken is also the storyof the world inside Russia at the time of Terror: the glitteringobliviousness of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, the duplicity ofthe Soviet government in its dealings with Roosevelt, and theterrible finality of the Gulag system. In the tradition of the finesthistory chronicling genocide in the twentieth century, TheForsaken offers new understanding of timeless questions of guiltand innocence that continue to plague us today.
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- Title The Forsaken : An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
- Author Tzouliadis, Timotheos
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 436
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2008-07-17
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP78918325
- ISBN 9781594201684 / 1594201684
- Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.62 x 1.41 in (23.27 x 16.81 x 3.58 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Stalin, Joseph, United States - Relations - Soviet Union
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008002918
- Dewey Decimal Code 947.004