Title: The Great Urals
Description: "In both the East and the West, political histories of the Soviet Union have portrayed a powerful Kremlin leadership whose will was passively implemented by regional Party officials and institutions. Drawing on his research in recently opened archives in Moscow and the Urals - a vast territory that since the eighteenth century has been a vital center of the Russian mining and metallurgy industries - James R. Harris overturns this view.

He argues here that the regions have for centuries had strong identities and interests and that they cumulatively exerted a significant influence on Soviet policy-making and on the evolution of the Soviet system."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Regional planning, Economic conditions, Economic policy, Regionalism, Soviet union, social conditions, Soviet union, politics and government
Places: Russia (Federation), Soviet Union, Ural Mountains Region, Ural Mountains Region (Russia)
Time periods: 1933-1937, 20th century