time and should have, at the least, received interest on his salary. Dolgun died on 28 August 1986, aged 59, in Potomac, Maryland, of kidney failure. He was survived by his wife and son. See also The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia John H. Noble Thomas Sgovio Victor Herman References Footnotes Bibliography Dolgun, Alexander, and Watson, Patrick, "Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag." "American Tells of his Arrest and 8 years as a Soviet Captive." The New York Times. 28 December 1973. "Alexander Dolgun; American was held 8 years in the Gulag." The New York Times. 29 August 1986. 20th-century American memoirists 1926 births 1986 deaths American emigrants to the Soviet Union American people imprisoned in the Soviet Union American people of Polish descent Deaths from kidney failure Foreign Gulag detainees