John D. Littlepage was taken so much for granted by the American colony in Moscow that I doubt if any of us fully realized what an important story he had to tell. We knew that he had been working since 1928 for the Soviet Gold Trust, during which time the Soviet gold industry had risen from negligible proportions to second place in world production. We suspected that he had been as much responsible as anyone else for this achievement, although we certainly never got any such idea from him. We guessed that he had seen more of the backwaters of Asiatic Russia than any other foreigner. But he said so little about his experiences that we had no idea how penetrating they had been.
Author(s): John D. Littlepage
Edition: 1
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Year: 1937
Language: English
Pages: 324
City: New York
Collaborator's Foreword ix
I. A Bolshevik Visits Alaska
II. Moscow's Chilly Welcome
III. Socialist Gold
IV. Siberia Becomes Our Home
V. I Learn About Kumiss
VI. An Unrecognized Revolution
VII. Liquidating Kulaks
VIII. Something Wrong With Copper
IX. My Suspicions Aroused
X. Blunders And Plots
XI. The Gold Rush Begins
XII. Exiles Under Sovietism
XIII. Russia's Greatest Asset
XIV. A Model Soviet Trust
XV. Where Travel Isn't Romance
XVI. Motoring Over Camel-Trails
XVII. Police Rule In Industry
XVIII. The Soviet Engineer's Plight
XIX. Nemesis
XX. Russian Amazons
XXI. The Great Stakhanoff Movement
XXII. The Land of Eurasia
XXIII. The Gold Rush Goes On
XXIV. Stalin Faces East
XXV. Communist Civil War
XXVI. Good-By To Russia
XXVII. Postscript
