Product Review

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." ۥRonald Grigor Suny

A genuine grassroots account of Soviet lifeۥa type of book of which there have been far too few." ۥWilliam Henry Chamberlin, New York Times, 1943

... a rich portrait of daily life under Stalin." ۥNew York Times Book Review

General readers, students, and specialists alike will find much of relevance for understanding today€s Soviet Union in this new edition of John Scott€s vivid exploration of daily life in the formative days of Stalinism.