Magnetic Mountain Stalinism As a Civilization

Name: Magnetic Mountain Stalinism As a Civilization
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ISBN: 9780520208230

ISBN-10: 0520208234

ISBN-13: 9780520208230

Edition: 1996

Authors: Stephen. Kotkin

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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…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/27/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 728
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English