Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialization
Author | : Donald A. Filtzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald A. Filtzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Jeffrey J ROSSMAN |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674042905 |
Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.
Author | : Hiroaki Kuromiya |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1990-06-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521387415 |
The first detailed English socio-political history of Stalin's industrial revolution, during the initial Five-Year plan, depicts a period of sacrifice for the entire nation.
Author | : David L. Hoffmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107007089 |
Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.
Author | : Elena Osokina |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501758527 |
Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program. At a time of desperate scarcity, Torgsin had access to the country's best foodstuffs and goods. Initially, only foreigners were allowed to shop in Torgsin, but the acute demand for hard-currency revenues forced Stalin to open Torgsin to Soviet citizens who could exchange tsarist gold coins and objects made of precious metals and gemstones, as well as foreign monies, for foods and goods in its shops. Through her analysis of the large-scale, state-run entrepreneurship represented by Torgsin, Elena Osokina highlights the complexity and contradictions of Stalinism. Driven by the state's hunger for gold and the people's starvation, Torgsin rejected Marxist postulates of the socialist political economy: the notorious class approach and the state hard-currency monopoly. In its pursuit for gold, Torgsin advertised in the capitalist West, encouraging foreigners to purchase goods for their relatives in the USSR; and its seaport shops and restaurants operated semilegally as brothels, inducing foreign sailors to spend hard currency for Soviet industrialization. Examining Torgsin from multiple perspectives—economic expediency, state and police surveillance, consumerism, even interior design and personnel—Stalin's Quest for Gold radically transforms the stereotypical view of the Soviet economy and enriches our understanding of everyday life in Stalin's Russia.
Author | : Robert Bird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Ausstellung |
ISBN | : 9780943056401 |
Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image culture alongside the formation of new social and cultural identities.
Author | : Robert C. Allen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-07-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691144311 |
To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to address the "what if" questions central to Soviet history. Moreover, by comparing Soviet performance not only with advanced but with less developed countries, he provides a meaningful context for its evaluation. Although the Russian economy began to develop in the late nineteenth century based on wheat exports, modern economic growth proved elusive. But growth was rapid from 1928 to the 1970s--due to successful Five Year Plans. Notwithstanding the horrors of Stalinism, the building of heavy industry accelerated growth during the 1930s and raised living standards, especially for the many peasants who moved to cities. A sudden drop in fertility due to the education of women and their employment outside the home also facilitated growth. While highlighting the previously underemphasized achievements of Soviet planning, Farm to Factory also shows, through methodical analysis set in fluid prose, that Stalin's worst excesses--such as the bloody collectivization of agriculture--did little to spur growth. Economic development stagnated after 1970, as vital resources were diverted to the military and as a Soviet leadership lacking in original thought pursued wasteful investments.
Author | : Mark Pittaway |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2010-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822978121 |
In 1956, Hungarian workers joined students on the streets to protest years of wage and benefit cuts enacted by the Communist regime. Although quickly suppressed by Soviet forces, the uprising led to changes in party leadership and conciliatory measures that would influence labor politics for the next thirty years. In The Workers' State, Mark Pittaway presents a groundbreaking study of the complexities of the Hungarian working class, its relationship to the Communist Party, and its major political role during the foundational period of socialism (1944-1958). Through case studies of three industrial centers—Ujpest, Tatabanya, and Zala County—Pittaway analyzes the dynamics of gender, class, generation, skill level, and rural versus urban location, to reveal the embedded hierarchies within Hungarian labor. He further demonstrates how industries themselves, from oil and mining to armaments and textiles, possessed their own unique labor subcultures. From the outset, the socialist state won favor with many workers, as they had grown weary of the disparity and oppression of class systems under fascism. By the early 1950s, however, a gap between the aspirations of labor and the goals of the state began to widen. In the Stalinist drive toward industrialization, stepped up production measures, shortages of goods and housing, wage and benefit cuts, and suppression became widespread. Many histories of this period have focused on Communist terror tactics and the brutal suppression of a pliant population. In contrast, Pittaway's social chronicle sheds new light on working-class structures and the determination of labor to pursue its own interests and affect change in the face of oppression. It also offers new understandings of the role of labor and the importance of local histories in Eastern Europe under communism.
Author | : Diane P. Koenker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780393803 |
Author | : Donald A. Filtzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |