Behind The Urals: An American Worker In Russia's City Of Steel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
In the turbulent 1930s, a young American idealist named John Scott packed his bags and journeyed deep into the Soviet Union, trading the comforts of the West for the brutal, grinding reality of Magnitogorsk — Stalin's showpiece City of Steel rising from the frozen Ural steppe. Behind the Urals chronicles Scott's extraordinary five years working alongside Soviet citizens, political prisoners, and fellow foreign volunteers as they forged, quite literally with their bare hands, one of the largest steel plants the world had ever seen — all while enduring sub-zero temperatures, food shortages, political terror, and the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet state. This enlarged edition of Scott's seminal 1942 first-hand account stands as one of the most vivid and unflinching eyewitness testimonies of Stalinist industrialisation ever committed to print. Writing with the measured clarity of a journalist and the raw emotion of a participant, Scott presents a nuanced portrait of a society caught between revolutionary ambition and human suffering, never shying away from both the genuine sacrifice and the profound injustice he witnessed. Supplemented with new scholarly material that deepens its historical context, this edition leaves the reader asking a question that still resonates today: what price is too high to build a nation?
Author: John Scott
Format: Hardback
Published: 1989, Indiana University Press
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
In the turbulent 1930s, a young American idealist named John Scott packed his bags and journeyed deep into the Soviet Union, trading the comforts of the West for the brutal, grinding reality of Magnitogorsk — Stalin's showpiece City of Steel rising from the frozen Ural steppe. Behind the Urals chronicles Scott's extraordinary five years working alongside Soviet citizens, political prisoners, and fellow foreign volunteers as they forged, quite literally with their bare hands, one of the largest steel plants the world had ever seen — all while enduring sub-zero temperatures, food shortages, political terror, and the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet state. This enlarged edition of Scott's seminal 1942 first-hand account stands as one of the most vivid and unflinching eyewitness testimonies of Stalinist industrialisation ever committed to print. Writing with the measured clarity of a journalist and the raw emotion of a participant, Scott presents a nuanced portrait of a society caught between revolutionary ambition and human suffering, never shying away from both the genuine sacrifice and the profound injustice he witnessed. Supplemented with new scholarly material that deepens its historical context, this edition leaves the reader asking a question that still resonates today: what price is too high to build a nation?