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Dneprostroi, a dam and power plant that was one of the most monumental construction projects of the Bolsheviks' First Five-Year Plan, was a milestone in American-Soviet cooperation and the fruit of the labor of more than 60,000 workers. Little known in the West, Dneprostroi was famous in the USSR—as the largest earth dam in Europe in the 1930s, it represented the first of the giant projects so favored by Stalin. Anne Rassweiler's informative history of this project reveals new aspects of the struggle between Trotsky and Stalin, the debate on the use of foreign advisers, the importance of foreign technology, and the devastating effects of collectivization on the industrial projects of the First Five-Year Plan. Her study also provides insight into the entry of women into the industrial work force and the interaction between party leaders, party membership, and enterprise officials as they sought to realize one of the most ambitious projects in Soviet history.
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Leslie Gutierrez
reviewed The Generation of Power: The History of Dneprostroi on December 14, 2014
The Generation of Power: The History of Dneprostroi
It is shocking that there are so many dams in the U.S. that were built in the first place and secondly that so very many of them no longer serve any purpose. Removing dams that no longer have a purpose is a significant thing that can be done for ecological restoration, but it is also a need that will take a lot of money. What was nice about this book was the detailed, personal view of the chosen dams that came from the author's visits to them and discussions with local citizens who have been involved with the issue of removal. The author visited dams from all regions of the U.S. Most people cannot remember or have any idea what areas were like before the dams were built. What this book doesn't examine are newer proposed and built dams, such as the Three Gorges dam in China and Su-Watana in Alaska. There is not much cost/benefit analysis on the electricity provided by dams and the ecological damage caused by dams. I would have preferred more synthesis in the writing instead of the detailed quotes from so many different people.
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