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Magnetic mountain : Stalinism as a civilization / / Stephen Kotkin



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Autore: Kotkin Stephen Visualizza persona
Titolo: Magnetic mountain : Stalinism as a civilization / / Stephen Kotkin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1997]
©1997
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvi, 639 pages)
Disciplina: 947.87084
Soggetto topico: Communism
Magnitogorsk (Russia)-- History
Soviet Union
Communism - Case studies - Soviet Union
Soggetto geografico: Magnitogorsk (Russia) History
Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century
blast furnace
capitalism
cold war
communism
dictator
eastern europe
european history
factory workers
history
industrialization
iron plant
kotkin
labor
marxism
metal
nonfiction
political science
political system
politics
russia
russian history
russian revolution
russian soviet history
social change
social history
socialism
soviet history
soviet steel
soviet studies
soviet union
stalin
stalinism
steel plant
ussr
workers
working class
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- USSR Organizational Structure, 1930's -- Note on Translation -- Introduction: Understanding the Russian Revolution -- Introduction -- 1. On the March for Metal -- 2. Peopling a Shock Construction Site -- 3. The Idiocy of Urban Life -- Introduction -- 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 -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Photograph Credits -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. The utopia it proffered, socialism, would be a new civilization based on the repudiation of capitalism. The extent to which the citizenry participated in this scheme and the relationship of the state's ambitions to the dreams of ordinary people form the substance of this fascinating story. Kotkin tells it deftly, with a remarkable understanding of the social and political system, as well as a keen instinct for the details of everyday life. Kotkin depicts a whole range of life: from the blast furnace workers who labored in the enormous iron and steel plant, to the families who struggled with the shortage of housing and services. Thematically organized and closely focused, Magnetic Mountain signals the beginning of a new stage in the writing of Soviet social history.
Titolo autorizzato: Magnetic mountain  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-08078-7
9786613520258
0-520-91885-1
0-585-36356-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813350703321
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