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Stalin's railroad : Turksib and the building of socialism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Matthew J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
Subjects:
Turkestano-Sibirskai͡a magistralʹ.
Railroads > Soviet Union > History.
Railroads and state > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Economic policy > 1928-1932.
Soviet Union > Ethnic relations.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953.
Communism > Soviet Union.
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of planning
  • Managerial hegemony : Spetsy and reds
  • The Turksib's "motley" workforce
  • The fall of the bourgeois specialists
  • Forge of a native proletariat?
  • The struggle to control Kontrolʹ
  • A new commanding staff
  • Reforging the working class
  • The new industrial order and Edinonachalie
  • Controlling the unruly working class
  • Conclusion : legacies.