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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.
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Forsaken, Tim Tzouliadis, JungHyun Uhm
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- Rok vydania
- 2009
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- Titul
- Forsaken
- Podtitul
- From the Great Depression to the Gulags - Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Tim Tzouliadis, JungHyun Uhm
- Vydavateľ
- Abacus
- Rok vydania
- 2009
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 498
- ISBN10
- 0349117535
- ISBN13
- 9780349117539
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Spoločenské vedy, Historické téma, Skutočné príbehy, Životopisy, História, Politológia & Politika, Politika, Rusko, Životopisy politikov, Sovietsky zväz, Ruské dejiny
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- 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.