LEADER 02775nam 22004693 450 001 9910156455603321 005 20250827080354.0 010 $a9781786258267 010 $a1786258269 035 $a(CKB)3810000000099570 035 $a(BIP)056974288 035 $a(Perlego)3018996 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32203370 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32203370 035 $a(Exl-AI)993810000000099570 035 $a(OCoLC)1534808713 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000099570 100 $a20250827d1942 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBehind the Urals $eAn American Worker in Russia's City of Steel 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWaipu :$cPickle Partners Publishing,$d1942. 210 4$dİ1942. 215 $a1 online resource (200 p.) 330 8 $aJohn 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 606 $aSoviets (People)$7Generated by AI 606 $aSoviet . . $7Generated by AI 615 0$aSoviets (People) 615 0$aSoviet . . . 676 $a914.7 700 $aScott$b John$020057 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156455603321 996 $aBehind the Urals$91280916 997 $aUNINA