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Steeltown, USSR : Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1991.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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, are here chronicled from inside a previously forbidden Soviet city, Magnitogorsk. Built under Stalin and championed by him as a showcase of socialism, the city remained closed to Western scrutiny until four years ago, when Stephen Kotkin became the first American to live there in nearly half a centu. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (364 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780520911000 |