Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin's Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the work
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2008
- Category
- Fiction
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