Behind the Urals
Subtitle: an American worker in Russia's city of steel
By: by John Scott.
Contributors: Kotkin, Stephen.
Edition: Enl. ed. / prepared by Stephen Kotkin.
Series: A midland book ;; MB536
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Bloomington, [Ind.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Scott, John, 1912- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Magnitogorsk.; Steel industry and trade -- Russia (Federation) -- Magnitogorsk.; Magnitogorsk (Russia) -- Description and travel.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Description: John Scott's classic account of his five years as a worker in the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the 1930s, first published in 1942, is enhanced in this edition by Stephen Kotkin's introduction, which places the book in context for today's readers; by the texts of three debriefings of Scott conducted at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1938 and published here for the first time; and by a selection of photographs showing life in Magnitogorsk in the 1930s. No other book provides such a graphic description of the life of workers under the First Five-Year Plan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint, with new introd. and addendum. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1942.