Building Utopia: Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930 - Hardcover

Austin, Richard Cartwright

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873387309 ISBN 13: 9780873387309

Verlag: The Kent State University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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.
Allan Austin, son of the president of the Austin Company, was the youngest of twenty American engineers supervising construction of this Russian city. He wrote many letters to his father and took photographs detailing the 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 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 collaboration efforts will be attracted to this compelling story.

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Richard Cartwright Austin helped to organize a national effort to secure federal legislation regulating strip mining for coal. He also organized the Coalition of American Electric Consumers, which successfully resisted the construction of the world's largest pumped-storage hydroelectric project on small farms, forests, and nature preserves in southwestern Virginia, where he lives. He holds a Doctor of the Science of Theology from San Francisco Theological Seminary and is retired from a forty-year ministry with the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Kent State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0873387309
• ISBN 13: 9780873387309
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225
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