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Students reading Scott have come away with an actual appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly fantastic enthusiasm with which many of them worked.” ―Ronald Grigor Suny
A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life―one of those book of which there were far too few.” ―William Henry Chamberlin, New York Times, 1943
… a wealthy portrait of day by day life under Stalin.” ―New York Times Book Review
General readers, students, and specialists alike will find much of relevance for working out as of late’s Soviet Union on this new edition of John Scott’s vivid exploration of day by day life within the formative days of Stalinism.