TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kotkin,Stephen
TI  - Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era
SN  - 9780520911000
AV  - DK651 .S744 1991
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Magnitogorsk (Russia)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Perestroi?ka
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Magnitogorsk
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - 1985-1991
KW  - History
KW  - Perestroĭka
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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