Format:
Online-Ressource (364 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520073531
Content:
No 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 centu
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; PREFACE; SELECT CHRONOLOGY; MAP OF MAGNITOGORSK; 1 The Steel Cage: The Politics of Economic Restructuring; 2 Glasnost: A City Newspaper Rises, a Theater Declines; 3 Squaring the Circle: Reform of and by the Communist Party; Photographs; 4 "Is Life Going to Go on like This Forever?" Hopes Raised, Then Lowered; 5 Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! Regeneration through Elections?; 6 A Stalin Mausoleum: The Past in the Present; AFTERWORD; EPILOGUE; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520911000
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520073548
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Steeltown, USSR : Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era
Language:
English
Keywords:
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