THE FORSAKEN: FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION TO THE GULAGS

Author: Tim Tzouliadis

Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Year published: 2008

Pagination: 472pp. photographs

Condition: Slight crease on dw, ow very good.

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Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin's Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the working man, racial equality, and honest labour, reality was a monstrous betrayal. From bandstands and baseball games to the nightly executions of Stalin's terror and the killing fields of the Arctic circle.