Without a Trace...: Pogrom, Sweatshop, Gulag: The Jewish Radical Odyssey of Noah and Miril London

Based on unprecedented research in Yiddish-language Jewish and overlooked Soviet archives, Without a Trace… recounts the tragic odyssey of Noah London, a leader of the Stalinist industrial revolution in the Donbass who became a secret dissident due to the Ukrainian famine.

John D. Holmes gives a vital insight into the nature of and origins of Stalinism and the causes of the “Great Terror,” the most mysterious episode of Soviet history. Through the lives of Noah and Miril London, Holmes tells the inside story of US and Soviet Communism, their similarities and parallels, and the Soviet bureaucracy in the Stalin era. The book shows how the revolution in Russia, twentieth-century Jewish history, US and Russian labor history and the evolution of Stalinism are intertwined threads. They link historical moments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and around the world. The London story has much to say about the present-day world and prospects for the future, not least by shedding light on today’s war-torn Donbass.