The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis
Christopher Silvester admires a compassionate account of Stalin’s American victims
The year was 1932. Two white American workers at the Ford tractor factory in Stalingrad provoked a fight with a black American co-worker and were expelled from the Soviet Union. They were the lucky ones. Many of their fellow Ford workers in Russia, as well as many other migrants from the US, would end up in Soviet labour camps, where the odds were against their survival.


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