Behind The Urals
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Behind The Urals
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Author : John Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Behind The Urals written by John Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Behind The Urals
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Author : John Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Behind The Urals written by John Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with categories.
John Scott left the University of Wisconsin for the Soviet Union in 1931. Appalled by the depression and attracted by what he had heard concerning the effort to create a "new society" in the Soviet Union, he obtained training as a welder and went abroad to join the great crusade. Assigned to construction of the new "Soviet Pittsburgh," Magnitogorsk, on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, the twenty-year-old was first an electric welder and then a foreman and chemist in a coke and chemicals by-products plant. He lived in a barracks, suffered cold and privation, studied evenings, married a Russian girl-in short, lived for five years as a Russian among Russians. No other description of life in a new steel city provides such a graphic description of the life of workers under the First Five Year Plan. Scott had a clear eye for detail and produced a chronicle that includes the ugliness and squalor as well as the endurance and dedication. Behind the Urals stands as a unique and revealing description of an iron age in an iron country.-Print ed. "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."-New York Times Book Review
Behind The Urals
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Author : John Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Behind The Urals written by John Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
Beyond The Urals
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Author : Elma Dangerfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Beyond The Urals written by Elma Dangerfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Poland categories.
Travels In Siberia
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Author : Ian Frazier
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2010-10-12
Travels In Siberia written by Ian Frazier and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-12 with Travel categories.
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history—its science, economics, and politics—with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again. With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known—Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)—to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the "amazingness" of Russia—a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.
Between Heaven And Hell
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Author : G. Diment
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Between Heaven And Hell written by G. Diment and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with History categories.
Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego,as the heavenly or infernal antithesis to the perceived complexity or shallowness of Russian life. It has been both the frightening heart of darkness and a fabulous land of plenty; the 'House of the Dead' and the realm of utter freedom; a frozen wasteland and a colourful frontier; a dumping ground for Russia's rejects and the last refuge of its lost innocence. The contributors to Between Heaven and Hell examine the origin, nature, and implications of these images from historical, literary, geographical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives. They create a striking, fascinating picture of this enormous and mysterious land.
Beyond The Urals
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Author : Reggie Gibbs
language : en
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Beyond The Urals written by Reggie Gibbs and has been published by LifeRich Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Fiction categories.
Russia, 1942. Outside Stalingrad, Arkady’s unit is ambushed and destroyed. The only survivor, the young soldier is faced with a choice: return to the war effort, or try and find his wife, Natasha, located in a factory city somewhere far to the east of the Ural Mountains. Disillusioned and hating the war, Arkady chooses the arduous task of searching for the only person he feels gives him peace. But as he embarks on thea perilous journey into Siberia’s vastness, he unwittingly becomes enmeshed in a spiritual and political battle for his nation’s soul, a battle being waged not only in the present, but also by towering figures from Russia’s past. Meanwhile, Natasha struggles against her own loneliness and despair as intrigue develops around her city’s eventual role in a post-war Soviet Union. Told in parallel, Arkady’s journey and Natasha’s trials form an allegory for the spirit’s quest for peace in a world consumed with the pursuit of power. With the forces of history and the world aligned against the individual, how is victory claimed? To this, an unconventional answer is offered - an ancient crucifix. A sweeping portrait of Russia, Beyond the Urals is a journey into the soul itself, probing untouched regions, while exploring the forces vying to occupy and control them.
Behind The Postcolonial
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Author : Abidin Kusno
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-04
Behind The Postcolonial written by Abidin Kusno and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-04 with Architecture categories.
In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, between images of global urban cultures and the concrete historical meanings of the local. It shows how one might write a political history of postcolonial architecture and urban space that recognizes the political cultures of the present without neglecting the importance of the colonial past. In the process, it poses serious questions for the analysis and understanding of postcolonial states.
Siberia
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Author : Janet M. Hartley
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Siberia written by Janet M. Hartley and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with History categories.
Geschiedenis van de bevolking van Siberië.
The Stalinist Era
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Author : David L. Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-15
The Stalinist Era written by David L. Hoffmann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with History categories.
Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.