Generation of Power - The History of Dneprostroi

Zusatztext 'a fascinating analytical history of this project ... Altogether a fascinating study.'Alastair McAuley! Department of Economics! University of Essex! Slavonic Review Klappentext Dneprostroi! a dam and power plant that was one of the most monumental construction projects of the Bolsheviks' First Five-Year Plan! was a milestone in American-Soviet cooperation and the fruit of the labor of more than 60!000 workers. Little known in the West! Dneprostroi was famous in the USSR--as the largest earth dam in Europe in the 1930s! it represented the first of the giant projects so favored by Stalin. Anne Rassweiler's informative history of this project reveals new aspects of the struggle between Trotsky and Stalin! the debate on the use of foreign advisers! the importance of foreign technology! and the devastating effects of collectivization on the industrial projects of the First Five-Year Plan. Her study also provides insight into the entry of women into the industrial work force and the interaction between party leaders! party membership! and enterprise officials as they sought to realize one of the most ambitious projects in Soviet history. Zusammenfassung This study describes the planning, development and construction of Dneprostroi, a dam and power plant that was one of the largest construction projects of the Bolshevik's first Five Year Plan. The text explains how the project became a milestone in American-Soviet co-operation.

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• Authors: Anne D. Rassweiler, Anne D. (Visiting Scholar Rassweiler, Rassweiler Anne D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.1989
• EAN: 9780195051667
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505166-7
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management, United States of America, USA, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Sanitary and municipal engineering, Sanitary & municipal engineering