Steeltown, USSR Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era.
Kotkin, Stephen.
Steeltown, USSR Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1991. - 1 online resource (364 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780520911000
Magnitogorsk (Russia)--Politics and government.
Perestroi?ka--Magnitogorsk.--Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
History.
Perestroĭka--Russia (Federation)--Magnitogorsk.
Electronic Books.
DK651 / .S744 1991
Steeltown, USSR Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1991. - 1 online resource (364 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780520911000
Magnitogorsk (Russia)--Politics and government.
Perestroi?ka--Magnitogorsk.--Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
History.
Perestroĭka--Russia (Federation)--Magnitogorsk.
Electronic Books.
DK651 / .S744 1991