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In 1922, Vladimir Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 "undesirable" intellectuals--mostly philosophers, academics, scientists, and journalists--to be deported from the new Soviet State. "We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all" he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their families away to what would become permanent exile in Berlin, Prague, and Paris. Through journals, letters, memoirs, and personal accounts, Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of these banished...

"Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull."--The Washington Post

"His writing is taut and psychologically nuanced like that of the great dime-store novelist Georges Simenon, his novelistic world as profane as Isaac Babel's."--Wall Street Journal

"Spokesman for those who were angry and beat . . . turbulent, temperamental, and tortured."--The New York Times

"A must-read . . . piercing and compelling."--Kirkus Reviews

"A self-taught writer with an uncanny gift for narrative and dialogue."--Roman Polanski

"Marek Hlasko...