LEADER 04734nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910962287603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612356025 010 $a9781282356023 010 $a128235602X 010 $a9780520911000 010 $a0520911008 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520911000 035 $a(CKB)2420000000002300 035 $a(EBL)922907 035 $a(OCoLC)794663676 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000310349 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925188 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000310349 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10287433 035 $a(PQKB)10006231 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000195434 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183428 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195434 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10130641 035 $a(PQKB)11751377 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC922907 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30618 035 $a(DE-B1597)518672 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520911000 035 $a(Perlego)550706 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000002300 100 $a19900912d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSteeltown, USSR $eSoviet society in the Gorbachev era /$fStephen Kotkin 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1991 215 $a1 online resource (364 p.) 300 $a"A Centennial book." 300 $aIncludes index. 300 $aFirst paperback printing with new epilogue 1992. 311 08$a9780520073531 311 08$a0520073533 311 08$a9780520073548 311 08$a0520073541 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface To The Paperback Edition --$tPreface --$tSelect Chronology --$t1. The Steel Cage: The Politics Of Economic Restructuring --$t2. Glasnost: A City Newspaper Rises, A Theater Declines --$t3. Squaring The Circle: Reform Of And By The Communist Party --$t4. "Is Life Going To Go On Like This Forever?" Hopes Raised, Then Lowered --$t5. Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! Regeneration Through Elections? --$t6. A Stalin Mausoleum: The Past In The Present --$tAfterword --$tEpilogue --$tIndex 330 $aNo one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation eventually affecting the entire postwar world order, are here chronicled from inside a previously forbidden Soviet city, Magnitogorsk. Built under Stalin and championed by him as a showcase of socialism, the city remained closed to Western scrutiny until four years ago, when Stephen Kotkin became the first American to live there in nearly half a century.An uncommonly perceptive observer, a gifted writer, and a first-rate social scientist, Kotkin offers the reader an unsurpassed portrait of daily life in the Gorbachev era. From the formation of "informal" political groups to the start-up of fledgling businesses in the new cooperative sector, from the no-holds-barred investigative reporting of a former Communist party mouthpiece to a freewheeling multicandidate election campaign, the author conveys the texture of contemporary Soviet society in the throes of an upheaval not seen since the 1930s.Magnitogorsk, a planned "garden city" in the Ural Mountains, serves as Kotkin's laboratory for observing the revolutionary changes occurring in the Soviet Union today. Dominated by a self-perpetuating Communist party machine, choked by industrial pollution, and haunted by a suppressed past, this once-proud city now faces an uncertain future, as do the more than one thousand other industrial cities throughout the Soviet Union.Kotkin made his remarkable first visit in 1987 and returned in 1989. On both occasions, steelworkers and schoolteachers, bus drivers and housewives, intellectuals and former victims of oppression-all willingly stepped forward to voice long-suppressed grievances and aspirations. Their words animate this moving narrative, the first to examine the impact and contradictions of perestroika in a single community. Like no other Soviet city, Magnitogorsk provides a window onto the desperate struggle to overcome the heavy burden of Stalin's legacy. 606 $aPerestroi?ka$zRussia (Federation)$zMagnitogorsk 607 $aMagnitogorsk (Russia)$xPolitics and government 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1985-1991 615 0$aPerestroi?ka 676 $a947/.87 700 $aKotkin$b Stephen$0301208 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962287603321 996 $aSteeltown, USSR$94354842 997 $aUNINA