The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags - Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia |
 enlarge | Author: Tim Tzouliadis
Publisher: Little, Brown
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 27746
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0316727245
EAN: 9780316727242
ASIN: 0316727245
Publication Date: July 31, 2008
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Fascinating and important story November 3, 2008
Julian Granville
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The Foresaken is a fascinating, finely researched and important book. Tzouliadis recounts the largely forgotten story of the emigration of desperate Americans to the USSR in the 1930s at a time when capitalism and liberal democracy seemed to be failing. The book interweaves the personal story of American auto workers, in particular Thomas Sgovio, with the unfolding of Stalin's terror. Tzouliadis gives special scrutiny to the blind eye turned by the US administration to Soviet crimes. He particularly brought home to me the personal tragedy of the terror that is often masked by the scale of the suffering and slaughter.
Tzouliadis has an Orwellian horror of totalitarianism and his anger and eloquence give this book great energy. It is a gripping story well told that has important lessons for our own turbulent time, not least re-enforcing Burke's oft quoted maxim: "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".
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