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“Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation ofthe hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearlyincredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked.” — Ronald GrigorSuny “A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life — a typeof book of which there have been far too few.” — William Henry Chamberlin, NewYork Times, 1943 ..”. a rich portrait of daily life underStalin.” — New York Times Book Review General readers, students, and specialists alike will find much of relevance for understandingtoday’s Soviet Union in this new edition of John Scott’s vivid exploration of dailylife in the formative days of Stalinism.