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This 10-page paper discusses the experiences of foreign nationals who went to work in Stalinist Russia in the 1930s. It focuses mainly on Zara Witkin, an engineer whose gradual disillusionment with the Soviet system throws its brutality into sharp relief. It also describes Stalin's Five-Year Plans, and touches on the experiences of other workers. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Americans, went to work in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist years. They tended to be young people who saw only the dream of Communism (the equality to be
found in a true workers state) and not the reality (the death squads, camps and brutality). Memoirs have been found recently that tell us what it was like to be
a foreign national working for Stalins government; in particular, Zara Witkins book gives new insights into that era. Zara Witkin Witkin was born in 1900, the son of Russian
Jewish ?migr?s who settled in California (Gelb, 1991). A talented youngster with a life-long interest in engineering, he entered the University of California at 16, and graduated with honors,
the class valedictorian (Gelb, 1991). He appears to have been multi-talented; by the time he was fifteen he had already designed and built calculating machines; and by the time
he got his bachelors, he had held several engineering positions with the state, the city of San Francisco, and the Southern Pacific railroad (Gelb, 1991). He also designed San
Franciscos Curran Theater, and in 1923 he was chief engineer of a major LA construction firm; one of the projects he supervised was the construction of the Hollywood Bowl (Gelb,
1991). In addition to a life-long love of engineering, Witkin appears to have had a great concern for justice and a passion for fairness, and as the son of Russian
?migr?s he followed events in the Soviet Union with great interest (Gelb, 1991). He became convinced that the capitalist system was deeply flawed, and that the Soviet idea of
a planned economy was "the most promising experiment in human history" because it promised "the creation of a society run not for profit but for human needs ... based not
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