Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization

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"This is a fine book, impressive in both quantity and quality." --Journal of Economic History "The collection stands out as one of the most useful volumes currently available on the Soviet Union in the 1930s." --Labour History Review "Altogether, this book succeeds in opening up the social history of the Soviet Union in the era of planning for those students and scholars who are ready to advance beyond the old stereotypes." --ILWCH The pathbreaking essays assembled here examine the complex pattern of relationships between the first Five Year Plans and the society and culture of Stalinist Russia. Discussion focuses on urbanization, social mobility, questions of social identity and the cultural constructions of the industrialization drive, as well as work organization, management relations, and the underlying processes of industrial organization. Contents Introduction I. Conceptualizing the Command Economy: Western Historians on Soviet Industrialization II. The Great Departure: Rural-Urban Migration in the Soviet Union, 1929-33 III. Social Mobility in the Countryside IV. Peopling Magnitostroi: The Politics of Demography V. The Management of Soviet Industry, 1928-41 VI. The Scope, Authority, and Personnel of the New Industrial Commissariats in Historical Context VII. The Commander and the Rank and File: Managing the Soviet Coal-Mining Industry, 1928-33 VIII. Masters of the Shop Floor: Foremen and Soviet Industrialization IX. Factories within Factories: Changes in the Structure of Work and Management in Soviet Machine-Building Factories, 1926-34 X. Criminal Justice and the Industrial Front XI. Engineers of Human Souls in an Age of Industrialization: Changing Cultural Models, 1929-41 XII. Soviet Industrialization from a European Perspective XIII. On Soviet Industrialization Guide to Further Reading Contributors Index