This book is a first-person account of work life in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Disenchanted with opportunities in Depression America in 1931, Scott takes off for the Workers' Paradise. He finds a job as a welder building the massive steelworks in the new Soviet city of Magnitogorsk in the Ural Mountains. Altogether, he spent six years living and working in Magnitogorsk until he lost his job due to Stalin's purges.
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图书标签: 苏联 历史 外国文学 俄国
"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 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.
美国人在苏联。斯考特同志的父亲是一位聒噪的美国共产主义者,但是因为过于吵闹被美国共产党开除了(这不重要)。重要的是这本书应该算什么文体?相比于自传,斯考特同志其实一直在exoticize自己在苏生活的经历,反倒更像是一本游记了。但毕竟生活不易,他曾经生活那么苦,回了美国总不能不让他写书赚钱吧。不过游记也讲到了,让苏联人能够接受dekulakization与大清洗的原因,除了新社会(with a transformative, abolitoinist nature)的愿景外,还有zf对曾经穷苦人民提供的切实的教育机会与social mobility。工人确实得到了上升机会成为了苏维埃的知识分子(soviet intelligentsia),虽然很少人能想明白自己为此付出了什么。
评分为了一个伟大的理想,多少普通人与恶劣的自然条件抗争,甚至付出了生命,最终还是破灭了。可悲又可惜。
评分Poli.Sci.204,Autumn'08
评分Poli.Sci.204,Autumn'08
评分Poli.Sci.204,Autumn'08
Behind the Urals 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书