Magnetic Mountain by Stephen Kotkin
An account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. It argues that Stalinism offered itself as an opportunity for enlightenment. It depicts a whole range of life: from the blast furnace workers who labored in the iron and steel plant, to the families who struggled with the shortage of housing and services.
"One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books. . a study of the steel city of Magnitogorsk, the U.S.S.R.’s answer to Pittsburgh, as it was constructed in the shadow of the Ural Mountains in the early nineteen-thirties. . . . A sharp-elbowed intervention in the decades-old debate between 'totalitarian' historians, who saw in the Soviet Union an omnipotent state imposing its will on a defenseless populace, and 'revisionist' historians, who saw a more dynamic and fluid society, with some portion of the population actually supporting the regime." * New Yorker *
Stephen Kotkin is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and author of Steeltown, USSR (California, 1991).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520208230 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520208234 |
| Title | Magnetic Mountain |
| Author | Stephen Kotkin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1997-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 728 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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