The Forsaken
Subtitle: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Published: July 17, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781594201684
Subjects: Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; History; History - U.S.; History: American
Description: 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.