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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia, by Tim Tzouliadis
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" The horror that was Stalinist Russia is still incomprehensible to many Americans . . . Reading this book is certain to open their eyes." -Richard Pipes, The New York Sun " Gripping and important . . . an extremely impressive book." -Noel Malcolm, Telegraph (London) " Tzouliadis's clear, strong narrative discloses the terrible fates which awaited those . . . who wandered into the Soviet sphere. . . . [A] grim, brilliantly told story." -Financial Times
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About the Author
Born in Athens, Timotheos Tzouladis was raised in England. A graduate of Oxford, he subsequently pursued a career as a documentary filmmaker and television journalist whose work has appeared on NBC and National Geographic television. He lives in London.
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Product details
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (June 30, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143115421
ISBN-13: 978-0143115427
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
161 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#212,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
As one who spent over 40 years studying and using the Russian language in military and defense areas, I really appreciate this book. My old Russian teachers who taught me the language over 50 years ago told me all about the Soviet Union whence their parents had escaped. After military service and then acquiring my undergraduate degree in Russian, I spent 6 months on a USIA (the old United States Information Agency) cultural exchange exhibit traveling around the USSR, after which I returned to the military institute where I had originally studied Russian and spent 30 years teaching the language to our military intelligence personnel. This book reveals the tragedy of the generation who, out of desperation during the Great Depression, grabbed what they thought was a safety line and traveled to what was being promoted as a "workers' paradise" in the 1930s, only to be swept up in the Great Purge and the Stalin Terror and be worked to death in the Soviet GULAG. It holds a valuable lesson for today's youth, many of whom are anxious to believe the siren song of socialism and accept it as the solution to all of society's problems. As the Russians say, "measure the cloth nine times before making the first cut." I only hope that young people can be encouraged to read this book and learn from history before they, too, might be caught up in the net and perish as did the generation described in the book.
Contrary to the single 1-star review, this is not some anti-communist dialectic, it is subtitled "An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia." The reader's opinion of the FDR administration should be significantly diminished in reading about his ambassador to Moscow, Joseph Davies, who spent much of his time out side of Russia, or when there, personally lowered the value of the black-market dollar exchange rate by endless shopping excursions scooping up Russian art. Davies went on to become a major adviser of FDR for Russian relations during the war and at Postdam. My only complaint is the author describes Davies as a "liberal lawyer" when he was anything but liberal. He was a corporate lawyer interested in money and deals, with no concern whatever for human rights or the gross abuses of Stalin.The book criticizes the actions or inaction of many American individuals: Americans naive enough to risk their futures and lives in the Soviet Union in the Great Depression era, Henry Ford whose book "My Life and Work" was a bestseller in Russia and whose factory ethic was admired by Stalin and who also made millions selling automobiles and factories to Stalin (the UAW's Walter Reuther worked for a time in the Gorky Ford plant), capitalists who encouraged Franklin Roosevelt to recognize the new Soviet Union as it would be good for business, President Franklin Roosevelt ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph Davies, an incompetent political appointee who was rich, acquisitive of Russian art, naive of what was going on in Russia to the point where his behavior reminds one of the Queen's Court in Alice in Wonderland. Davies written reports from the National Archives referenced in the book include accounts of Davies attendance at Russian show trials and his belief in the guilt of all those quickly convicted and executed. The book also parcels out rebuke for FDR Vice-President Henry Wallace who was easily and completely duped by the Russian NKVD in admiring the Kolyma slave camps in a visit there in 1944, US Embassy employees and State Department officers who knew Americans in Russia were being arrested and eliminated as they stepped out of the embassy onto the streets but did nothing as it would not benefit their careers, US newsmen in Russia who were wined, dined, entertained (and censored) who failed to investigate or believe in the fatality rates of the Ukrainian famine of the early 30's, and famous Americans like Paul Robeson, who was confronted by his own son for not speaking out on the execution of people they had both known in Russia. Additionally, American mining experts helped open up the rich goldfields of the arctic Kolyma, while the FDR administration, aware that the Soviet gold was mined by virtual slaves, arranged to buy the Soviet gold on NYC markets and have it shipped to the US to the extent of tens of millions a month in order to control the price and supply of gold. US Lend-Lease shipments also fed the NKVD guards in Magadan while also supplying slave ships to send them north to the Kolyma. The incompetence, greed, negligence to know, care or seek to alleviate the atrocities being committed under Stalin, by parties almost too numerous to list in US industry, government and media are as shocking as the heinous Soviet state repression itself. Harry Truman, senator at the time, is one of the few who seemed to understand the folly of saving Stalin, when he spoke against Lend-Lease and said we should help the Germans if Russia was winning, or if the Germans were winning help the Russians, in order to let the two regimes destroy each other.On reflection, it is frankly no surprise that with a pro-Soviet ideology and advisers who were blinded to the realities of Stalinism, people like like Davies, and VP like Wallace, FDR handed over Eastern Europe to Stalin after the war. Men who cared little about reports of the crimes of Stalin, or for the lives of Americans trying to flee Stalin, would hardly flinch at putting millions of others behind his Iron Curtain.
Although there are many runners up, no one fits the description of a sociopath better than Joseph Stalin. The mind begins to reel when trying to comprehend the sheer magnitude of the numbers of people that were brutally and sadistically murdered by Stalin’s regime. Some of the first of those to be seized by this paranoid regime were dozens and dozens of expatriated Americans. “One is taken one is leftâ€â€”and the one that was “taken†was thrown into the back of a van; brutally beaten, tortured, and ended up with a bullet to the back of the head, to be shoved into a mass grave along with dozens of others who had met the same ignominious fate. And if you were lucky enough (and I do mean lucky) to escape this fate, many of your friends, family, or neighbors weren’t so lucky. The number of priests alone who were killed by the Stalin’s Regime was a staggering 200,000.One of the main questions that emerges is was our State Department aware of what was going on? And the answer is an unequivocal yes. At the time the American Embassy was rife with those who sided with-and secretly supported--the aims, goals, methodology and ideology of the Soviet regime. Ever ready to sing paeans of praise to Stalin this cadre of communist sympathizers found a very comfortable and safe place within the American Diplomatic Corps in Moscow during the 1930’s.Perhaps, no one is more guilty of displaying a complete contempt and disregard for the sufferings of these poor expatriated Americans than the morally bankrupt US ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph Davies. Proud, affectatious, obsessed with image, Davies chose to look the other way as these expatriated Americans were being systematically murdered. Always ready to throw lavish parties on his yacht for the Soviet elite--replete with the most expensive champagne and caviar—Davies never missed an opportunity to extoll the virtues of Stalin.Next to Joseph Davies, no one did more to help foster and create a glowing image of Stalin than the American newspaper journalist Will Duranty; a name that now stands preeminent in the Journalists Hall of Shame. Just like Davies, Duranty knew full well what was taking place in Soviet Russia and, just like Davies, chose to look the other way. Neither man had the courage or the resolve to bring these atrocities to light. Both were guilty of sending back idyllic reports and communiques to Roosevelt and to the American press. Which explains (at least in part) why Roosevelt was particularly soft on Soviet Russia, at least in the beginning.Surely the men and woman who had to suffer and endure these tragic and horrific ordeals must have felt Forsaken, but thanks to Tim Tzouliadis’ book they will not forgotten.
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