In The Stables Of Hollywood: Frank Capra's Treatment For Mgm's Soviet (1932).

The article analyzes Frank Capra's treatment for the 1932 film "Soviet." Screenwriter Boris Pil'niak was noted for having written the first Soviet Russian production novel of the Soviet First-Year Plan called "The Volga Flows Into the Caspian Sea." His fictionalized depiction of the Dneprostroi dam construction project is especially significant to his employment as a scenarist for MGM later project "Soviet," which in its final version of 1934 was about the construction of the world's largest dam and was to have been filmed on location at the Hoover Dam at Boulder, Colorado, with American photographer Margaret Bourke-White acting as an advisor.