Building utopia : erecting Russia's first modern city, 1930

Building utopia : erecting Russia's first modern city, 1930 /

"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...

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Main Author: Austin, Richard Cartwright, 1934-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent [Ohio] : Kent State University Press, 2004
Subjects:
Gorʹkovskiĭ avtomobilʹnyĭ zavod > History.
Ford Motor Company > History.
Austin Company > History.
Automobile industry and trade > Russia (Federation) > Nizhniĭ Novgorod > History.
City planning > Russia (Federation) > Nizhniĭ Novgorod.
Nizhniĭ Novgorod (Russia) > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Austin method
  • 2. Those Russians are starting fresh
  • 3. In a friendly way
  • 4. Spirit and ability
  • 5. The first communist city in the world
  • 6. The first home we have had
  • 7. Off the road
  • 8. Workers clamoring to get paid
  • 9. Every principle seems upset
  • 10. To stay here over Christmas
  • 11. Work on ice a meter thick or more
  • 12. An opportunity given by God
  • 13. Here they will fail or triumph
  • 14. Fortresses taken by Bolsheviks
  • 15. The USSR at the wheel
  • 16. Gazelle.

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