Behind the Urals
Behind the Urals

Author: John Scott

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780253351258

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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.

The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry
The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry

Author: Craig ZumBrunnen

Publisher: Government Institutes

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780865981584

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In this empirically based study, ZumBrunnen and Osleeb present a current, comprehensive, and in-depth view of Soviet heavy industry capacity and suggest that significant changes in production locations and manufacturing efficiency levels are warranted. Using a mathematical model to analyze the optimal locations for Soviet iron and steel production, they predict probable shifts in industry locations, output, and processes at both existing locations and future centers up to the year 1990.