American Workers in The Soviet Union Between the Two World Wars
December 30, 2008 at 11:51 pm | In Blogroll, International relationship, Politics, Russian culture, Russian history, Russian women, Soviet Union, relationship, travel to Russia | Leave a CommentTags: International relationship, Revolution, Russian culture, Russian history, Russian women, Siberia, Soviet Union, travel to Russia, USSR
In the 1920s and 1930s hundreds of American socialists, blacks seeking a society free from racism, Jews who had fled the tsarist pogroms, Russian immigrants and their children, ordinary workers and recent college graduates were fascinated by the Soviet experiment. Between 1920 and 1925 nearly 22,000 American and Canadian men, women and families moved to Russia intending to remain there (Paula Garb, “They Came to Stay: North Americans in the USSR”). These idealistic Americans who went off to the USSR to build the world of the future were quickly introduced to Russian reality – and to Russian romance.
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