Magnetic mountain : Stalinism as a civilization /
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 predominant...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | [Pbk. ed., 1997]. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1997. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of 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.