Complex sentence: In 1987 Stephen Kotkin was the first American to give a detailed account of life at Magnitogorsk since John Scott and found a dirty and dispirited city surrounding hopelessly obsolescent steel mills, far from the "garden city" anyone expected.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1987 Stephen Kotkin was the first American to give a detailed account of life at Magnitogorsk since John Scott. Kotkin found a dirty and dispirited city surrounding hopelessly obsolescent steel mills, far from the "garden city" anyone expected.