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BL
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946794
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b701164
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| Main Entry
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Kotkin, Stephen.
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| Title & Author
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Magnetic mountain : : Stalinism as a civilization /\ Stephen Kotkin.
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| Edition Statement
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[Pbk. ed., 1997].
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley, Calif. :: University of California Press,, 1997.
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1 online resource (xxv, 639 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0520918851
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: 0585363560
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: 9780520918856
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: 9780585363561
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0520069080
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0520208234
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-608) and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; USSR Organizational Structure, 1930s; Note on Translation; Introduction: Understanding the Russian Revolution; I. Building Socialism: The Grand Strategies of the State; 1. On the March for Metal; 2. Peopling a Shock Construction Site; 3. The Idiocy of Urban Life; II. Living Socialism: The Little Tactics of the Habitat; 4. Living Space and the Stranger's Gaze; 5. Speaking Bolshevik; 6. Bread and a Circus; 7. Dizzy with Success; Afterword: Stalinism as a Civilization.
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| Abstract
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This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly agricultural nation into a "country of metal." With unique access to previously untapped archives and interviews, Kotkin forges a vivid and compelling account of the impact of industrialization on a single urban community. Kotkin argues that Stalinism offered itself as an opportunity for enlightenment.
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Communism-- Soviet Union, Case studies.
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Communism.
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History Archaeology.
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HISTORY-- Europe-- General.
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HISTORY.
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Politics and government
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Regions Countries - Europe.
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Russia Former Soviet Republics.
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Magnitogorsk (Russia), History.
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Soviet Union, Politics and government, 1917-1936.
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Russia (Federation), Magnitogorsk.
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Soviet Union.
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| Dewey Classification
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947/.87
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| LC Classification
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DK651.M159K675 1997eb
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