[Auntie Mame]

I’ve read this, in fact I own it in both paperback and hard back. It’s wonderful. If you haven’t already read it and can find it, I highly recommend “Coming Out of the Ice” by Victor Herman. I actually liked “Ice” better than Dolgun’s book, if that’s possible.

Truly amazing what the Soviets did to American citizens they stuck in their gulags.

I’m reading “American Betrayal” right now and the author brings up a point that I’d never thought of about the Neuremburg trials and how they had Soviets as judges and administrators judging the Nazi’s on things the Soviets were doing right alongside the Nazis... and continued to do.

[Fiji Hill]

Another book that might interest you is The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Russia by Tim Tzouliadis (New York: Penguin, 2008). In this book, Tzouliadis, a British researcher, tries to tell the story of the thousands of Americans who came to the Soviet Union in the 1920's and 1930's, many thinking that they were moving to a utopian paradise, only to wind up dead or in the Gulag. Although Tzouliadis did as much as he could to tell as much of the story as possible, the whole truth will never be known until Russia allows researchers to freely pursue it, which is highly unlikely.

Another that you might find interesting--and one that I haven't gotten around to reading yet--is Black on Red: My 44 Years inside the Soviet Union by Robert Robinson (Washington, DC: Acropolis, 1988). This is the story of a black American who found himself in Stalin's Soviet Union and somehow survived the purges. When he was interviewed at the time the book was published, the author spoke with a Russian accent.