Title: Behind the Urals
First published: 1942
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.
Subjects: Steel industry and trade, Politics and government, Travel, Description and travel, Americans, soviet union, Steel industry and trade, soviet union, Journeys
Places: Magnitogorsk, Russia (Federation), Magnitogorsk (Russia), Soviet Union, Magautigirsjm russia
People: John Scott (1912-)
Time periods: 1917-1936