Full name: The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia

Author: Tim Tzouliadis Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Culture: Russia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781594201684 9780143115427 1594201684 0143115421

A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except perhaps for the Russian lettering on their jerseys. The players have left their homeland and the Great Depression in search of a better life in Stalinist Russia, but instead they will meet tragic and, until now, forgotten fates. Within four years, most of them will be arrested alongside untold numbers of other Americans. Some will be executed. Others will be sent to "corrective labor" camps where they will be worked to death. This book is the story of lives-the forsaken who died and those who survived. Based on groundbreaking research, The Forsaken is the story of Americans whose dreams were shattered and lives lost in Stalinist Russia. Similar books: The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest Moscow, 1937 by Karl Schlogel Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine Down with Big Brother by Michael Dobbs Gulag by Anne Applebaum Soviet Tragedy by Martin Malia Magnetic Mountain by Stephen Kotkin A Concise History of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick Lenin's Private War by Lesley Chamberlain The Whisperers by Orlando Figes The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter The Orientalist by Tom Reiss The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky The Red Prince by Timothy Snyder