Much of the book, inevitably, is a more general history of Stalinism, the Great Terror and the gulags, drawing upon the original work of Solzhenitsyn, Robert Conquest, Anne Applebaum and others, but he has organised his narrative with considerable skill, retaining his focus on the plight of these immigrants into the living hell that was the USSR, the dupes in the West who encouraged them and the US officials who failed to help them.Ĭompared with the enormous tragedy of the Russian people under Communism, this history is no more than a footnote - but it is a particularly poignant and revealing one, Tzouliadis has relied quite heavily on two memoirs by members of the 1930s baseball teams who survived the prison camps, Dear America by Thomas Sgovio and Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life by Victor Herman (both 1979). Tim Tzouliadis, a documentary-maker whose first book this is, tells the dreadful story of what happened to these deceived emigrants with eloquence and indignation. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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