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Author Kotkin, Stephen

Title Magnetic mountain : Stalinism as a civilization / Stephen Kotkin
Edition [Pbk. ed., 1997]
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 639 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; USSR Organizational Structure, 1930s; Note on Translation; Introduction: Understanding the Russian Revolution; I. Building Socialism: The Grand Strategies of the State; 1. On the March for Metal; 2. Peopling a Shock Construction Site; 3. The Idiocy of Urban Life; II. Living Socialism: The Little Tactics of the Habitat; 4. Living Space and the Stranger's Gaze; 5. Speaking Bolshevik; 6. Bread and a Circus; 7. Dizzy with Success; Afterword: Stalinism as a Civilization
Summary This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly agricultural nation into a "country of metal." With unique access to previously untapped archives and interviews, Kotkin forges a vivid and compelling account of the impact of industrialization on a single urban community. Kotkin argues that Stalinism offered itself as an opportunity for enlightenment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-608) and index
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Subject Communism -- Soviet Union -- Case studies
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Communism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Magnitogorsk (Russia) -- History
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125845
Subject Russia (Federation) -- Magnitogorsk
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520918856
0520918851
0585363560
9780585363561