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Tankograd The Formation of a Soviet Company Town - Cheliabinsk

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ISBN-10: 0230208878

ISBN-13: 9780230208872

Edition: 2011

Authors: Lennart Samuelson

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Tankograddepicts the daily life and strivings of the people in the Urals, ordinary workers, peasants, engineers and managers who transformed a slumbering provincial city to a central element in Russia's defence industry. It combines social, economic, and cultural history with military analyses of the Urals' importance for the Soviet war efforts.
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Book details

List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 7/26/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 351
Size: 5.68" wide x 8.85" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Lennart Samuelson is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Research in Economic History, Stockholm School of Economics.

Preface
Cheliabinsk As a Mirror of Russia in the 20th Century
From the Civil War to the Five-year Plans
The Civil War in the Southern Urals
The Battle of Cheliabinsk, July-August 1919
Militarisation of labour and force against the peasantry
Recovery under the New Economic Policy
A new industrial landscape emerges
Transformation of the countryside: collectivisation and dekulakisation
The Industrial City As a Socialist Vision and Soviet Reality
The changing character of Cheliabinsk city in the 1930s
Sotsgorod6k - a socialist ideal for the tractor factory city district
Barracks for industrial workers in 'shanty towns'
Health care and education
Sport
The Tractor Factory's Civilian Production and Military Potential
Foreign specialists
The significance of the tractor factory for the Red Army
Evolution of the military doctrine
Military-economic preparedness: The ChTZ enterprise in the 1930s
Stagnation and Streamlining in the Whirlwinds of Terror, 1936-1939
Purges of party members in 1937-1938
Repression against technicians, engineers and leading cadres in the economy
Mass repression campaigns
Lavrentii Beria and the streamlining of NKVD internal affairs
Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk, 1939-1940
The USSR's preparations for war in 1941
The start of tank production at the Cheliabinsk Tractor Factory
Production Conditions for Heavy Tanks in the Urals
The establishment of 'Tankograd'
The final battle for Berlin
1418 Long Days on the Home Front in the Southern Urals
Evacuation and conversion of industry
Working conditions in Tankograd
Soviet Germans build the new iron and steel works in Cheliabinsk
Prisoners of war in Cheliabinsk
The countryside
The political information sphere in the Urals
Victory Day 1945 in the Southern Urals
The New Military-Industrial Complex in Cheliabinsk during the Cold War
The reconversion of the tractor factory after the war
The labour force
Housing conditions
The end of the career of the 'Kings of Tanks'
youth protests in post-war cheliabinsk
The closed atomic cities in the cheliabinsk region
Historical Memory and Research in Today's Cheliabinsk
Notes
Bibliography
Index