equipment modernized.
The people who went to the Soviet Union generally had a good idea of what the situation there involved: a lower standard of living than in the United States, hard work, and little economic reward (Scott, 1989, p. 4). Most of the Americans were interested in the practical application of socialism and were frustrated with the concentration of American society on material gain and material goods. These were individuals who were willing to contribute to a society that they felt had a better approach to solving a person's everyday problems than the United States, and they were willing to offer their assistance.
Such altruism was not the motivation that American companies went to the Soviet Union during the early 1900s. Companies such as Ford were interested in extracting revenue and profit from the Soviet Union, and were largely uninterested in the politics that surrounded the factory sites. Their employees made up the other large group of Americans who were in the Soviet Union during the 1
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