The Forsaken

Description:

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.

subjects: Concentration camps,  Immigrants,  Forced labor,  Relations,  Baseball teams,  Americans,  Emigration and immigration,  Foreign relations,  History,  Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953,  Russia (federation), history,  Russia (federation), social conditions,  Americans, foreign countries,  Diplomatic relations,  GULag NKVD,  Stalin, joseph, 1879-1953,  Americans, soviet union,  Soviet union, relations, foreign countries,  United states, relations, soviet union,  Soviet union, history, 20th century,  Soviet union, foreign relations, united states,  Soviet union, emigration and immigration,  United states, emigration and immigration

People: Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)

Places: Soviet Union,  United States

Times: 1919-1933,  1917-1936