The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia, By Tim Tzouliadis The Penguin Press, $29.95During the 1930s, work was hard to find in the United States and for the first time more people were leaving than arriving. Many opted for the USSR, the vaunted worker’s paradise where, as legend had it, scientific socialism prevailed, as opposed to the chaos of capitalism. The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia, tells their story, and a lot more. Some were committed communists but most were ordinary American workers, mechanics, machinists, electricians, a multi-tasking group. They arrived full of enthusiasm and played baseball...