In a remarkable investigation that spans seven decades of political change, author Tim Tzouliadis tells of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to be horribly betrayed.
The Forsaken begins in the year 1934. The American exiles came from all walks of life. There were Communists, trade unionists and radicals of the John Reed school, but most were simply ordinary people searching for security in the wake of the Great Depression. This is their story. The Observer called it “powerful, important and highly readable”.
To reconstruct this largely forgotten story, Tzouliadis draws upon official records, memoirs, newspaper reports and interviews.