John Scott (writer)

John Scott (1912–1976) was an American writer. He was in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1941. His best-known book, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, is a memoir of that. Most of his career was as a journalist, book author, and editor with Time Life.
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Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers, New York: Random House (1997), pg. 182.
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, New Haven: Yale University Press, (1999), pgs. 194, 195, 237.

Further reading
 Tim Tzouliadis. The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags – Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Little, Brown, 2009. "The Alabaman Herbert Lewis was locked up in a Stalingrad prison [for assaulting Robinson]... his arrest, observed the visiting American reporter William Henry Chamberlin, seemed only to strengthen the "racial chauvinism" of the three hundred other Americans working at the tractor factory." (p. 39-40)
 Smith, Homer. Black Man in Red Russia. Johnson; Ex-Lib edition (1964). ASIN: B000IQ7HGQ
 The Ghost of the Executed Engineer
 An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932–1934.  Witkin, Zara (1900–1940)

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