Fischer, Louis; photography by Margaret Bourke-White; Machines and Men in Russia; New York: Jonathan Cape & Robert Ballou 1932. xv, 283 pages. Hardcover.
Soviet Union - Economic policy - Five-year plan (1928-1932) Russia - Economic conditions - 1917-1945. Soviet Union - Social conditions. Soviet Economics Russian History - 20th Century Photography Stalin, Josef, -- 1879-1953 Five Year Plan Nerhood 960 Margaret Bourke-White Photographers
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Written while Fischer was strongly supporting the first Five Year Plan, collective farming, Joseph Stalin, and US recognition of the Soviet Union. "Russian-born American correspondent stationed in Moscow, 1921-39, to represent the Nation. At first sympathetic, he is later disillusioned by the purges, and urges rejection of both communism and fascism. Beautifully and strikingly illustrated by the photography of Margaret Bourke-White, the book describes the progress of the first Five Year Plan by 1931." - Harry W Nerhood (compiled by); To Russia and Return : An Annotated Bibliography of Travelers' English-Language Accounts of Russia from the Ninth Century to the Present; 960. Margaret Bourke-White photographic endpapers, frontispiece and five plates of photographs. "The emphasis on the Soviet people was reflected in several photos included in Louis Fischer's book Machines and Men in Russia, where the author argued that for Russians ‘the machine merely serves as a means to human well-being … there need be no conflict between men and machines’." - Barnaby Haran; "Tractor Factory Facts: Margaret Bourke-White's Eyes on Russia and the Romance of Industry in the Five-Year Plan"; Oxford Art Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2015. Variant edition, instead of the Harrison Smith publication, as successor to the firm of Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, this is the equally short-lived successor from the other side, Jonathan Cape & Robert Ballou, stated "First Published, 1932".

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