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Article: An African-American worker in Stalin's Soviet Union: race and the Soviet experiment in international perspective.(Robert Nathaniel Robinson)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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ROBERT NATHANIEL ROBINSON was a twenty-three-year-old toolmaker in Detroit when he decided, like many thousands of Americans and Europeans in the early 1930s, to take a job in the booming industries of the Soviet Union. A Jamaican-born immigrant, Robinson was a reserved and unassuming man with little interest in politics. Yet within a short time after his arrival in Russia, he achieved unintended fame, becoming one of the best-known Americans residing in Russia, a cause celebre for the Soviets and an object of both condemnation and admiration in the United States. For the Soviet regime he became a symbol of racial oppression under capitalism and of communism's promise of ...
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