Generation of Power

Dneprostroi, a dam and power plant that was one of the most monumental construction projects of the Bolsheviks'' First Five-Year Plan, was a milestone in American-Soviet cooperation and the fruit of the labor of more than 60,000 workers. Little known in the West, Dneprostroi was famous in the USSR--as the largest earth dam in Europe in the 1930s, it represented the first of the giant projects so f...