Tankograd
Subtitle: the formation of a Soviet company town, Cheliabinsk, 1917-2000
By: Lennart Samuelson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780230208872
Subjects: Military vehicle industry; HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Military History; Tractors; HISTORY / Social History; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Company towns; Tanks (Military science); History
Description: "Tankograd depicts the daily life and strivings of the people in the Urals, ordinary workers, peasants, engineers and managers who transformed a slumbering provincial city to a central element in Russia's defence industry. It combines social, economic, and cultural history with military analyses of the Urals' importance for the Soviet war efforts"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Cheliabinsk as Mirror of Russia's 20th Century; title: From the Civil War to the Five-year Plans; title: Industrial City as Socialist Vision and Soviet Reality; title: The Tractor Factory's Civilian Production and Military Potential; title: Stagnation and Streamlining in the Whirlwinds of Terror, 1936-39; title: Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk, 1939-1940; title: Production Conditions for Heavy Tanks in the Urals; title: 1418 Long Weekdays on the Home Front in the Southern Urals; title: The New Military-Industrial Complex in Cheliabinsk in the Cold War.