Peasant Metropolis
Subtitle: Social Identities in Moscow 1929-1941
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801486609
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Social mobility; Work & labour; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; History: World; History; History - General History; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Social History
First sentence: When eighteen-year-old Evgenii Mikhailovich stepped off a train in Moscow in 1931, he gaped in awe at the bustling metropolis that surrounded him.