the communist chasm by nan wisherd
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They followed a dream, a dream of a better life promised to them by agents of North America's booming industry owners. It was a dream that led many of them into the Upper Midwest's deep, dangerous mines and into fierce labor strikes and ruinous blacklistings. Years later and deeply disillusioned, they were promised a Worker's Paradise by communist recruiters who sent them to Russia's Karelia, where their fate was sealed by Joseph Stalin. - Amazon