black on red my 44 years inside the soviet union

: x A 1989 New York Times book review said: At age 17 or 18 years, John changed his name to John Scott Stephen Kotkin, who edited a republishing of Scott's memoir, said that this was 'to secure his own identity and independence'. Scott was born as John Scott Nearing in 1912, the son of Scott Nearing, a somewhat famous American radical, and Nearing's first wife, Nellie Marguerite Seeds Nearing. After his retirement in 1973, he served as vice president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for several years. In later years he publicly advocated against Bolshevism. After the war, he was a journalist with Time magazine for several decades. He worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. : 305–306 He moved back to the United States with his family and published his book about his Soviet experience. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, he remained sympathetic to socialist ideals but had soured on Stalinism as the path for socialist development, although he believed that the Soviet economy was succeeding in raising the standard of living of the populace and that the Soviet regime would endure as long as that remained true. He was disillusioned in 19 by the Great Purge, which removed him from normal Soviet life as a suddenly distrusted foreigner and which disappeared many of his Russian colleagues. He worked as a welder, chemist, and foreman at the new city of Magnitogorsk and married and had children there. Scott began his adult life as an idealistic democratic socialist, and traveled to the Soviet Union in 1932 to be part of the early Soviet zeitgeist of enthusiastically building socialism. The bulk of his career was as a journalist, book author, and editor with Time Life.

His best-known book, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, is a memoir of that experience.

He spent about a decade in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1941. John Scott (1912–1976) was an American writer. Scott Nearing (father) Helen Nearing (stepmother)

Black on red my 44 years inside the soviet union