Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) (1932)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The Gorky car plant”
Jan 1932 — Built with Ford’s help on the Volga at Nizhny Novgorod, renamed Gorky that year, the plant began turning out copies of Ford’s Model AA truck, and copies of the Model A car followed in December. Its new “socialist city” of workers’ housing was meant to show the life the plans promised.
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- Stalin’s Five-Year Plans (chapter 4 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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