John Scott

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John Scott

Best known for Behind the Urals, this American writer turned firsthand experience in the Soviet Union into vivid reporting and memoir. His work brings readers close to the factories, politics, and personal upheavals of a turbulent era.

2 Audiobooks

The puzzle king : Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.

The puzzle king : Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.

by John Scott

Genius rewarded : The story of the sewing machine

Genius rewarded : The story of the sewing machine

by John Scott

About the author

Born in 1912 and raised in Philadelphia, John Scott became known as an American writer, journalist, and editor with an unusually direct view of Soviet industrial life. As a young man, he spent much of the 1930s in the Soviet Union, working in Magnitogorsk, a major steel city in the Urals.

That experience shaped his best-known book, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. Rather than writing from a distance, he described the Soviet project as someone who had lived and worked inside it, which gives the book much of its lasting interest.

Later, Scott continued his career in journalism and publishing, including work with Time Life. He died in 1976, but his writing remains valuable for readers interested in history, politics, and the human side of life inside a rapidly changing society.