Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
by Scott, John
Age band: 18+
Looky Rating System: Violence 2/5, Love & Romance 0/5, Mental Health 1/5, Language 0/5, Substance Use 0/5, Fear / Horror 2/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 0/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 0/5, Sci-Fi / Futuristic 0/5, Disability & Neurodiversity 0/5.
Description
"Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked." ―Ronald Grigor Suny"A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life―a type of book of which there have been far too few." ―William Henry Chamberlin, New York Times, 1943" . . . a rich portrait of daily life under Stalin.