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_b.S744 1991
049 _aNTA
100 1 _aKotkin, Stephen.
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245 1 0 _aSteeltown, USSR
_bSoviet Society in the Gorbachev Era.
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260 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c(c)1991.
300 _a1 online resource (364 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aCover; 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.
520 0 _aNo 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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650 4 _aMagnitogorsk (Russia)
_xPolitics and government.
650 4 _aPerestroi?ka
_zRussia (Federation)
_xMagnitogorsk.
650 4 _aSoviet Union
_xPolitics and government
_x1985-1991.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 0 _aPerestroĭka
_zRussia (Federation)
_zMagnitogorsk.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=547391&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell