Thanks to the Museum Complex in Verkhnyaya Pyshma for their incredible assistance in preparing the filming! https://t.me/mk_pyshma https://vk.com/museum_complex_vp You can send donations here: Sber: 4276380043743165 https://www.donationalerts.com/r/igor... Telegram channel: https://t.me/igorasanov VK: https://vk.com/igorasanov Insta: igggy 00:00:00 — The Beginning 00:03:13 — Ford T and its Significance 00:05:25 — The Origins of Standardization: Eli Whitney and Cotton 00:06:32 — The Development of Standardization: Weapons 00:08:09 — Standardization and the Replacement of the Wheel 00:11:43 — Henry Ford's Conveyor Belt 00:13:44 — Albert Kahn and the Standardization of Construction 00:15:05 — The Russian Empire 00:19:20 — The First World War 00:26:01 — Revolution and Civil War 00:31:18 — Intervention 00:33:28 — The Significance of the October Revolution 00:38:34 — Communist International 00:39:31 — Lenin's Concept of the USSR 00:39:55 — World Revolution is Postponed 00:40:42 — The Bolsheviks Restore the Country 00:41:49 — First Russian-American Contacts 00:42:41 — Famine of the Early 1920s 00:44:54 — Amtorg 00:46:06 — Concessions 00:48:56 — Automobiles and Airplanes 00:50:37 — Electrification 00:54:32 — Avant-garde and Constructivism 00:55:33 — Krzhizhanovsky and Winter 00:01:17 — The First Five-Year Plan and the Great Turning Point 01:03:28 — Military Alarm of 1927 01:05:49 — The Need for Industrialization 01:08:41 — Finding Funds for Industrialization 01:11:02 — Torgsin 01:13:15 — About the Museum Complex 01:14:13 — Heavy Engineering 01:16:32 — Food Cards 01:19:31 — Failure of Grain Procurement 01:20:22 — Collectivization of the Village 01:25:47 — Optimism and New Heroes 01:27:44 — Ford A: Return to the USA 01:29:07 — The American Credit Bubble 01:29:50 — Ponzi Scheme 01:31:02 — The Great Depression 01:33:16 — Criminals and the Ford V8 01:34:24 — Shooting the unemployed in Detroit 01:34:40 — The USSR gives jobs to Americans 01:35:23 — John Scott goes to Magnitogorsk 01:38:25 — Giant factories of the first five-year plan 01:39:10 — The NAMI-1 car 01:40:51 — Agreement with Ford 01:43:40 — Andrey Lipgart and the open space 01:44:38 — Robert Robertson: a black man in the USSR 01:45:34 — Nizhny Novgorod Automobile Plant 01:46:38 — Americans at the construction site of GAZ 01:46:55 — Who built the factories? 01:47:40 — Conflicts and misunderstandings 01:48:40 — John Scott on the problems of the Magnitka construction 01:50:18 — Hugh Cooper on ingenuity 01:51:42 — American methods in the USSR 01:53:20 — Workers' city and communes 01:53:39 — Emancipation of women 01:54:28 — Soviet Detroit or Utopian city? 01:55:38 — Workers' life in Magnitogorsk 01:57:09 — Alan Austin on the construction of GAZ 01:59:24 — Housekeepers in the USSR in the 1930s 02:00:03 — Soviet and American food 02:00:41 — Products in Magnitogorsk 02:02:31 — Peasants come to the GAZ construction site 02:03:22 — Workers at the construction of Magnitka 02:04:38 — Racism of white Americans 02:07:56 — John Scott starts a family 02:09:24 — Put the whole country at a desk 02:11:40 — Career growth and income differences 02:13:40 — Prisoners at the Magnitka construction site 02:15:29 — Chief Engineer Tikhomirov 02:17:01 — Attitude to old specialists 02:17:38 — Andrey Lipgart designs the GAZ-M1 02:18:45 — How engineers were recruited 02:19:48 — GAZ-M1 "Emka" 02:21:31 — Spy operation in America 02:22:31 — Chrysler flathead engine in the USSR 02:22:57 — Staff turnover 02:24:01 — Leaders of the Stalin era 02:24:55 — Competition 02:25:21 — John Scott on the director of Magnitka 02:26:31 — Self-criticism 02:28:49 — Problems with the quality of the Emka 02:29:33 — Who could be recognized as a saboteur 02:30:01 — Repressions and purges 02:32:45 — Don Scott on the optimism of workers 02:33:29 — Life Never Stops 02:34:35 — Automobile Propaganda 02:36:42 — GAZ Starts Up, Americans Leave 02:37:46 — American Cinema 02:38:16 — Burgers in the USSR 02:39:19 — Life Gets Better 02:40:25 — John Scott Leaves the USSR 02:41:07 — John Scott in Sverdlovsk 02:43:20 — Factories Ready for War 02:44:01 — T-60 Tank 02:45:41 — Unification of Military and Civilian Industries 02:47:50 — Why Were the Americans Needed? 02:48:30 — How the Five-Year Plan Factories Saved the Country During the War 02:49:45 — Norin on Stalingrad 02:50:47 — There Would Never Have Been a Victory 02:51:18 — After the War 02:51:32 — How Capitalism Evolved 02:52:59 — A Huge Boost for the USSR 02:54:17 — "Victory" M-20 03:55:05 — Heroic, but Short-lived 03:56:55 — The Ending Some of the books I used while writing the script: 1) Shpotov B. M. American Business and the Soviet Union in the 1920-1930s: Labyrinths of Economic Cooperation 2) Elena Osokina. The Alchemy of Soviet Industrialization. Torgsin Time 3) Vyacheslav Bondarenko: Lipgart. The Creator of "Pobeda" 4) John Scott. Beyond the Urals. An American Worker in a Russian City of Steel 5) Richard Cartwright Austin. Buil