Tankograd: the formation of a Soviet company town : Cheliabinsk, 1900s-1950s

A major production site of Soviet KV and T-34 tanks in WWII, the town of Cheliabinsk in the Urals was nicknamed 'Tankograd', its civilian machine-building factories swiftly converted to arms production. This book gives a social, economic and political panorama that describes everyday life in a typical Soviet company town during the Stalin era. LENNART SAMUELSON has been doing Archival Research in Russia since the early 1990s. His publications include 'Plans for Stalin's War-Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic' 'Planning, 1925-1941' and 'Stalin, NKVD and the Repressions, 1936-1938', co-authored with Vladimir Khaustov. INDICE: List of Illustration - Foreword - Cheliabinsk as a Mirror of Russia in the Twentieth Century - From the Civil War to the Five-year Plans - The Industrial City as Socialist Vision and Soviet Reality - The Tractor Factory's Civilian Production and Military Potential - Stagnation and Streamlining in the Whirlwinds of Terror, 1936b39 - Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk 1939b1940 - Production Conditions for Heavy Tanks in the Urals - 1418 Long Days on the Home Front in the Southern Urals - The New Military-Industrial Complex in Cheliabinsk during the Cold War - Historical Memory and Research in Today's Cheliabinsk - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-20887-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 25/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés