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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594201684
ISBN-13
9781594201684
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63886106
Product Key Features
Book Title
Forsaken : an American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Emigration & Immigration, International Relations / General, General
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
6.5 in
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LCCN
2008-002918
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The
Dewey Edition
22
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In The Forsaken, Tim Tzouliadis’ clear, strong narrative discloses the terrible fates which awaited those—committed communists and apolitical innocents alike—who wandered into the Soviet sphere. Tzouliadis does not spare us the details…this grim, brilliantly told story…reads as from another time.” —The Financial Times Heart-wrenching….” —New York Post [a] gripping and important book…an extremely impressive book…The writing is crisp and fluent, and the ordinary lives of these Americans come vividly to life; but at the same time the larger political framework is always present, lucidly outlined.” —Noel Malcolm, Telegraph(UK) "Tim Tzouliadis's excellent tome, The Forsaken, warrants immediate attention…a remarkable account of the foreigners who worked, suffered and ultimately perished in the USSR. The grim nature of the material does not silence Tzouliadis's wonderfully descriptive voice. After a great amount of research, his is a powerful testament to the wretched unfortunates who unwillingly gave their lives for a country they, in many cases, struggled to speak the language of. An incisive and cogent read, [The Forsaken] is required reading for anyone interested in this intriguing, reprehensible and lamentable era." —Sunday Business Post(UK) In this spellbinding book, British writer and film-maker Tim Tzouliadis brings to life an aspect of Stalin's Terror that had been almost completely forgotten – the brutal, systematic extermination of these unlikely economic migrants from Pittsburgh and New York and Wichita, along with millions of other "enemies" of the Soviet state. As almost 100 pages of end notes attest, this is a painstakingly researched story — it must have taken the author several years to assemble all the necessary material — yet it is told with such panache that it doesn't feel the least bit dry or academic.” —The Living Scotsman(UK) It is not often that a new page of history is written….This book is a fine narrative, full of ironic, sometimes black humor; it is thoroughly researched, sympathetic to the victims and merciless to the perpetrators.. [a] fine and important book.” —The Literary Review(UK) Tim Tzouliadis, a documentary-maker whose first book this is, tells the dreadful story of what happened to these deceived emigrants with eloquence and indignation…he has organized his narrative with considerable skill, retaining his focus on the plight of these immigrants into the living hell that was the USSR…Compared with the enormous tragedy of the Russian people under Communism, this history is no more than a footnote—but it is a particularly poignant and revealing one.” —Evening Standard(UK) [The Forsaken] turns the spotlight on a page of Soviet history that has been ignored until now….Although familiar with the Gulag literature from Solzhenitsyn onwards, I found some of these pages impossible to read without pain, anger and astonishment.” —Peter Lewis, Daily Mail(UK) Tzouliadis’s narrative…holds the reader’s attention and illuminates an overlooked chapter in 20th-century history, revealing larger trends in relations between Russia and the United States that persist today...an intriguing tale.” —Kirkus Reviews Their story is told with great skill and indignation missing from Western accounts of communist Russia…admirable work…The horror that was Stalinist Russia is still incomprehensible to many Americans, even to many of those who study the USSR professionally. Reading this book is certain to open their eyes.” —Richard Pipes, The New York Sun A superb story, and Tzouliadis tells it well. Tzouliadis sets out to establish the existence, In The Forsaken, Tim Tzouliadis’ clear, strong narrative discloses the terrible fates which awaited those—committed communists and apolitical innocents alike—who wandered into the Soviet sphere. Tzouliadis does not spare us the details…this grim, brilliantly told story…reads as from another time.” —The Financial Times Heart-wrenching….” —New York Post [a] gripping and important book…an extremely impressive book…The writing is crisp and fluent, and the ordinary lives of these Americans come vividly to life; but at the same time the larger political framework is always present, lucidly outlined.” —Noel Malcolm, Telegraph(UK) "Tim Tzouliadis's excellent tome, The Forsaken, warrants immediate attention…a remarkable account of the foreigners who worked, suffered and ultimately perished in the USSR. The grim nature of the material does not silence Tzouliadis's wonderfully descriptive voice. After a great amount of research, his is a powerful testament to the wretched unfortunates who unwillingly gave their lives for a country they, in many cases, struggled to speak the language of. An incisive and cogent read, [The Forsaken] is required reading for anyone interested in this intriguing, reprehensible and lamentable era." —Sunday Business Post(UK) In this spellbinding book, British writer and film-maker Tim Tzouliadis brings to life an aspect of Stalin's Terror that had been almost completely forgotten – the brutal, systematic extermination of these unlikely economic migrants from Pittsburgh and New York and Wichita, along with millions of other "enemies" of the Soviet state. As almost 100 pages of end notes attest, this is a painstakingly researched story — it must have taken the author several years to assemble all the necessary material — yet it is told with such panache that it doesn't feel the least bit dry or academic.” —The Living Scotsman(UK) It is not often that a new page of history is written….This book is a fine narrative, full of ironic, sometimes black humor; it is thoroughly researched, sympathetic to the victims and merciless to the perpetrators.. [a] fine and important book.” —The Literary Review(UK) Tim Tzouliadis, a documentary-maker whose first book this is, tells the dreadful story of what happened to these deceived emigrants with eloquence and indignation…he has organized his narrative with considerable skill, retaining his focus on the plight of these immigrants into the living hell that was the USSR…Compared with the enormous tragedy of the Russian people under Communism, this history is no more than a footnote—but it is a particularly poignant and revealing one.” —Evening Standard(UK) [The Forsaken] turns the spotlight on a page of Soviet history that has been ignored until now….Although familiar with the Gulag literature from Solzhenitsyn onwards, I found some of these pages impossible to read without pain, anger and astonishment.” —Peter Lewis, Daily Mail(UK) Tzouliadis’s narrative…holds the reader’s attention and illuminates an overlooked chapter in 20th-century history, revealing larger trends in relations between Russia and the United States that persist today...an intriguing tale.” —Kirkus Reviews
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
365.4509470904
Synopsis
A remarkable piece of forgotten historyathe story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to meet a tragic, and until now forgotten, end The Forsaken starts with a photograph of a baseball team. The year is 1934, the image black and white: two rows of young men, one standing, the other crouching with their arms around one anotheras shoulders. They are all somewhere in their late teens or twenties, in the peak of health. We know most, if not all, of their names: Arthur Abolin, Walter Preeden, Victor Herman, Eugene Peterson. They hail from ordinary working families from across AmericaaDetroit, Boston, New York, San Francisco. Waiting in the sunshine, they look just like any other baseball team except, perhaps, for the Russian lettering on their uniforms. These men and thousands of others, their wives, and children were possibly the least heralded migration in American history. Not surprising, maybe, since in a nation of immigrants few care to remember the ones who leave behind the dream. The exiles came from all walks of life. Within their ranks were Communists, trade unionists, and radicals of the John Reed school, but most were just ordinary citizens not overly concerned were politics. What united them was the hope that drives all emigrants: the search for a better life. And to any one of the millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression, even the harshest 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 and along with them unaccounted numbers of their fellow countrymen. As foreign victims ofStalinas Terror, some will be executed immediately in basement cells or at execution grounds outside the main cities. Others will be sent to the acorrective labora camps, where they will be starved and worked to death, their bodies buried in the snowy wasteland. Two of the baseball players who survive and whose stories frame this remarkable work of history will be inordinately lucky. This book is the story of these mensa livesaThe Forsaken who lived and those who died. The result of years of groundbreaking research in American and Russian archives, The Forsaken is also the story of the world inside Russia at the time of Terror: the glittering obliviousness of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, the duplicity of the Soviet government in its dealings with Roosevelt, and the terrible finality of the Gulag system. In the tradition of the finest history chronicling genocide in the twentieth century, The Forsaken offers new understanding of timeless questions of guilt and innocence that continue to plague us today.
LC Classification Number
DK34.A45T96 2008
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