Machines and Men in Russia 1932 Louis Fischer/Margaret Bourke-White ~ Soviet Union ~ Five-year Plan ~ Social Conditions ~ Industrialization

Title: Machines and Men in Russia

Author: Louis Fischer / Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White

Description: Green cloth with publisher's emblem in gilt on front cover. Spine faded; some modest fading along edges of boards. Photographic endpapers. Previous owner's first name erased on half-title page, else internally clean. A handful of unopened leaves near conclusion. Features seven full-page photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, including the endpapers and frontispiece. xv + 283 pages.

A descriptive characterization of the social conditions and the progress of industrialization in the Soviet Union, written near the conclusion of the first Five Year Plan. Also includes chapters on the intelligentsia and Soviet writers. Illustrated with photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, the first Western photographer allowed to enter the Soviet Union, who had made trips there in 1930, 1931 and 1932.

The author, Louis Fischer (1896-1970), was an American journalist and Soviet expert who had lived and traveled extensively in the Soviet Union since 1922. He was also a biographer of both Stalin and Lenin, with ''The Life of Lenin'' winning the National Book Award for history and biography in 1965.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Harrison Smith
Place: New York
Year: 1932

Keywords: Soviet Union, history, industries, economic policies, social conditions, 1930s, Thirties, communism, Five Year Plan,