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Book Title
Building Utopia : Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930
Publication Name
Building Utopia
Title
Building Utopia
Subtitle
Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930
Format
Hardcover
EAN
9780873387309
ISBN
9780873387309
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Genre
Business & Economics
Release Date
31/05/2004
Release Year
2004
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Author
Richard Cartwright Austin
Publication Year
2004
Item Length
8.8in
Topic
Industries / Automobile Industry
Item Width
8.8in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's largest automobile factory and an adjacent city in just eighteen months. The site chosen was Nizhny Novgorod, later named Gorky, near the Volga River, 500 miles east of Moscow. To design and construct both factory and city, Soviet officials approached the premier industrial builder in America, the Austin Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The Austin Company was an innovative designer and builder, as well as a capitalist enterprise, with unusually rigorous ethical standards. Soviet engineers and managers who worked with the Americans were inexperienced and driven by an ideology that often led to conflicts. The remote location, the unskilled labor force, the looming deadline, and the destabilizing impact of the worldwide depression combined to aggravate tensions. Allan Austin, son of the president of the Austin Company, was the youngest of twenty American engineers supervising construction. He wrote many letters to his father and took photographs detailing the human struggles involved in this vast undertaking. Author Richard Cartwright Austin uses his father's letters, Russian and American documents, and extensive photographic resources to tell how this cooperation between capitalist and communist, American and Russian, was achieved. From near-breakdown during the initial months, through a Russian winter that called for bravery and ingenuity, to a frantic race toward completion in the final months, Building Utopia reveals the common humanity of both communists and capitalists and the contrasts between Russian and American cultures. Historians as well as scholars interested in early U.S.-Soviet cooperation or in the history of technology will be attracted to this compelling story.

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Publisher
Kent State University Press
ISBN-10
0873387309
ISBN-13
9780873387309
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2206868

Product Key Features

Book Title
Building Utopia : Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930
Author
Richard Cartwright Austin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Industries / Automobile Industry
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Business & Economics
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.8in
Item Width
8.8in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hd9710.R93n593 2003
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-007826
Dewey Decimal
947/.41
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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