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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
Paperback
Biographies GeneralRussian History
ISBN13: 9781773238593
Publisher: Must Have Books
Published: May 24 2022
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
John Scott left the University of Wisconsin for the Soviet Union in 1931. Appalled by the depression and attracted by what he had heard concerning the effort to create a new society in the Soviet Union, he obtained training as a welder and went abroad to join the great crusade. Assigned to construction of the new Soviet Pittsburgh, Magnitogorsk, on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, the twenty-year-old was first an electric welder and then a foreman and chemist in a coke and chemicals by-products plant. He lived in a barracks, suffered cold and privation, studied evenings, married a Russian girl-in short, lived for five years as a Russian among Russians.
No other description of life in a new steel city provides such a graphic description of the life of workers under the First Five Year Plan. Scott had a clear eye for detail and produced a chronicle that includes the ugliness and squalor as well as the endurance and dedication. Behind the Urals stands as a unique and revealing description of an iron age in an iron country.-Print ed.
Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked.-Ronald Grigor Suny
A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life- a type of book of which there have been far too few.-William Henry Chamberlin, New York Times, 1943
...a rich portrait of daily life under Stalin.-New York Times Book Review
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