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 Sadly Forgotten January 7, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In the early twentieth century, a large number of American writers expressed socialist ideals in their literature. After the Cold War, of course, this fact was largely erased from American memories, and the novels with communist tendencies were expelled from the literary canon. It's a tragedy, of course, to forget any part of our history, and for that reason alone, these works should certainly be revisited today, even if most contemporary readers wouldn't necessarily sympathize with those ideologies.
Myra Page's Moscow Yankee is one of those novels that has largely been forgotten but that is now back in print. It is the story of Andy, a Ford factory worker who loses his job. With the promise of work, he goes to Moscow at the time when the Soviet Union in the first Five-Year Plan. The world he finds there isn't perfect, but it's a better sort of life than he had previously known. Thus, the book is something of a conversion narrative, and there's a good bit of romance thrown in to mirror, and comment on, this movement.
It is a good read, and though it is not at all difficult, there is a lot here that is interesting. There are a number of things here that we could learn about both our history and our current situation.
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