politalX Politics Store - The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags - Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia
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Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780316727242
ISBN: 0316727245
Label: Little, Brown
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2008-07-31
Publisher: Little, Brown
Studio: Little, Brown
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Summary: Stunning Book
Comment: A very good book, very well written about a subject not often broached. The structure and personalities make this a very good read, thoroughly recommended
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Summary: Fascinating and important story
Comment: 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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