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The forsaken : an American tragedy in Stalin's Russia
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- ISBN: 9781594201684 :
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Physical Description:
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436 p. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-416) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The Joads of Russia -- 2. Baseball in Gorky Park -- 3. "Life Has Become More Joyful!" -- 4. "Fordizatsia" -- 5. "The Lindbergh of Russia" -- 6. "The Captured Americans" -- 7. "The Arrival of Spring" -- 8. The Terror, the Terror -- 9. Spetzrabota -- 10. "A Dispassionate Observer" -- 11. "Send Views of New York" -- 12. "Submission to Moscow" -- 13. Kolyma Znaczit Smert -- 14. The Soviet Gold Rush -- 15. "Our Selfless Labor Will Restore Us to the Family of Workers" -- 16. June 22, 1941 -- 17. The American Brands of a Soviet Genocide -- 18. An American Vice President in the Heart of Darkness -- 19. "To See Cruelty and Burn Not" -- 20. "Release by the Green Procurator" -- 21. The Second Generation -- 22. Awakening -- 23. "Citizen of the United States of America, Allied Officer Dale" -- 24. Smert Stalina Spaset Rossiiu -- 25. Freedom and Deceit -- 26. The Truth at Last -- 27. "The Two Russias" -- 28. Thomas Sgovio Redux. |
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| Subject: | Stalin, Joseph -- 1879-1953 Americans -- Soviet Union -- History Immigrants -- Soviet Union United States -- Relations -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Relations -- United States |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Lac La Hache Branch | 947.0842 TZO (Text)
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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.
