It has been only lightly edited to correct obvious typographical, grammatical, and spelling errors. This text was prepared from a copy of an original manuscript that resides in the archives of the Hoover Institution. At various stages of the preparation of this volume I benefited from the generous support provided by a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley a short-term grant from the International Research Exchanges Board (IREX) and a summer research grant from Franklin and Marshall College. I wish to thank the following for their contributions to this volume: Victoria Bonnell of the Sociology Department of the University of California at Berkeley, Sheila Levine of the University of California Press, and Elena Danielson of the Hoover Institution Archives, for their early and unflagging support for the project Kenneth Patsel, Galina Aleksandrova, and Svetlana Afanaseva, for obtaining Emma Tsesarskaia's original consent for an interview Liudmila Budiak and Tatiana Krylova of the All-Union Research Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow for their help in locating Tsesarskaia and arranging the interview Holland Hunter, emeritus of the Economics Department of Haverford College, for his evaluation of Witkin's statistical work on the five-year plans Peter Kenez of the University of California at Santa Cruz, for his expertise Jeffrey Pott, for providing photographs of Witkin's buildings (one of which now serves as headquarters for the Church of Scientology and discharges suspicious and unpleasant chaperones to intimidate photographers) Bernard Witkin, for sharing information about his brother the research staff of the library at Franklin and Marshall College, for answering scores of questions Dore Brown of the University of California Press, for her painstaking and creative copyediting and most important, Emma Tsesarskaia herself, for the kindness and generosity she showed by meeting me.
An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991 1991.
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