ABSTRACT
Ivan Ivanovich stopped trying to peer out of the grimy window round the too broad back of the woman worker just in front of him, and struggled to insert his folded Pravda between his nose and her hair. The worker in the city they attach permanently, from late childhood to death, to his particular factory and particular task. The Daily Worker and Soviet Russia Today, journals which specialize in telling the world what life is like in the land of the Soviets, were silent on the letter and the spirit of this transformation. With fatal inevitability, the fixing of the population on the land dried up the labor reserves from which new industrial workers might be recruited. On March 8, 1940, the Government reported that the number of women workers had more than trebled in the preceding decade —from 3 million to almost 11 million in 1939.
