Steeltown, USSR : Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era

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No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation eventually affecting the entire postwar world order,...

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Main Author: Kotkin, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and government
Perestroĭka.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
Perestroïka > Russie > Magnitogorsk.
Perestroĭka > Russia (Federation) > Magnitogorsk.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation) > Magnitogorsk.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
Magnitogorsk (Russia) > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; PREFACE; SELECT CHRONOLOGY; MAP OF MAGNITOGORSK; 1 The Steel Cage: The Politics of Economic Restructuring; 2 Glasnost: A City Newspaper Rises, a Theater Declines; 3 Squaring the Circle: Reform of and by the Communist Party; Photographs; 4 "Is Life Going to Go on like This Forever?" Hopes Raised, Then Lowered; 5 Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! Regeneration through Elections?; 6 A Stalin Mausoleum: The Past in the Present; AFTERWORD; EPILOGUE; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

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