Customer Reviews
Stunning Book - By: Robert Smith, 08 Dec 2008 
A very good book, very well written about a subject not often broached. The structure & personalities make this a very good read, thoroughly recommended
Fascinating and important story - By: Julian Granville, 03 Nov 2008 The Foresaken is a fascinating, finely researched & important book. Tzouliadis recounts the largely forgotten story of the emigration of desperate Americans to the USSRin the 1930s at a time when capitalism & liberal democracy seemed to be failing. The book interweaves the personal story of American auto workers,in particular Thomas Sgovio, with the unfolding of Stalin's terror. Tzouliadis gives special scrutiny to the blind eye turned by the US administration to Soviet crimes. He particularly brought home to me the personal tragedy of the terror that is often masked by the scale of the suffering & slaughter.
Tzouliadis has an Orwellian horror of totalitarianism & his anger & eloquence give this book great energy. It is a gripping story well told that has important lessons for our own turbulent time, not least re-enforcing Burke's oft quoted maxim: "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".
