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The forsaken : an American tragedy in Stalin's Russia / Tim Tzouliadis.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2009.Description: 436 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143115427 (pbk.)
  • 0143115421 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.004/13
LOC classification:
  • 338 DK 34 T998f 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
The Joads of Russia Baseball in Gorky Park "Life has become more joyful!" "Fordizatsia" "The Lindbergh of Russia" "The captured Americans" "The arrival of spring" The terror, the terror Spetzrabota "A dispassionate observer" "Send views of New York" "Submission to Moscow" Kolyma Znaczit Smert The Soviet gold rush "Our selfless labor will restore us to the family of workers" June 22, 1941 The American brands of a Soviet genocide An American Vice President in the heart of darkness "To see cruelty and burn not" "Release by the Green Procurator" The second generation Awakening "Citizen of the United States of America, Allied Officer Dale" Smert Stalina Spaset Rossiiu Freedom and deceit The truth at last "The two Russias" Thomas Sgovio redux
Summary: The story of a little-known group of émigrés, Americans who went to Russia during the 1930s in the hope that the Communist promise of a better life was a reality -- only to find xenophobia, paranoia and ultimately, in many cases, imprisonment or death in Stalin's Terror.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 338 DK 34 T998f 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000191789

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Joads of Russia
Baseball in Gorky Park
"Life has become more joyful!"
"Fordizatsia"
"The Lindbergh of Russia"
"The captured Americans"
"The arrival of spring"
The terror, the terror
Spetzrabota
"A dispassionate observer"
"Send views of New York"
"Submission to Moscow"
Kolyma Znaczit Smert
The Soviet gold rush
"Our selfless labor will restore us to the family of workers"
June 22, 1941
The American brands of a Soviet genocide
An American Vice President in the heart of darkness
"To see cruelty and burn not"
"Release by the Green Procurator"
The second generation
Awakening
"Citizen of the United States of America, Allied Officer Dale"
Smert Stalina Spaset Rossiiu
Freedom and deceit
The truth at last
"The two Russias"
Thomas Sgovio redux

The story of a little-known group of émigrés, Americans who went to Russia during the 1930s in the hope that the Communist promise of a better life was a reality -- only to find xenophobia, paranoia and ultimately, in many cases, imprisonment or death in Stalin's Terror.

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