Tanlograd - The Formation of a Soviet Company Town

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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, 1936–39 Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk 1939–1940 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

Product details

• Authors: L Samuelson, L. Samuelson, Lennart Samuelson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2011
• EAN: 9780230208872
• ISBN: 978-0-230-20887-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; B, History, European History, military history, Second World War, Political History, History: specific events and topics, World Politics, Political science and theory, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Europe—History, History of Military, Europe, Eastern—History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Soviet Union—History