Synopses & Reviews
"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."
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-289) and index.
About the Author
WILLIAM G. ROSENBERG is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of Liberals in the Russian Revolution and co-author (with Diane P. Koenker) of Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917. LEWIS H. SIEGELBAUM is Professor of Modern Russian History at Michigan State University. He is author of Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929 and Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
William G. Rosenberg and Lewis H. Siegelbaum
I. Conceptualizing the Command Economy: Western Historians on Soviet Industrialization
Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald G. Suny
II. The Great Departure: Rural-Urban Migration in the Soviet Union, 1929-33
Sheila Fitzpatrick
III. Social Mobility in the Countryside
Stephan Merl
IV. Peopling Magnitostroi: The Politics of Demography
Stephen Kotkin
V. The Management of Soviet Industry, 1928-41
R.W. Davies
VI. The Scope, Authority, and Personnel of the New Industrial Commissariats in Historical Context
Don K. Rowney
VII. The Commander and the Rank and File: Managing the Soviet Coal-Mining Industry, 1928-33
Hiroaki Kuromiya
VIII. Masters of the Shop Floor: Foremen and Soviet Industrialization
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
IX. Factories within Factories: Changes in the Structure of Work and Management in Soviet Machine-Building Factories, 1926-34
David Shearer
X. Criminal Justice and the Industrial Front
Peter Solomon, Jr.
XI. Engineers of Human Souls in a Age of Industrialization: Changing Cultural Models, 1929-41
Katerina Clark
XII. Soviet Industrialization from a European Perspective
Geoff Eley
XIII. On Soviet Industrialization
Moshe Lewin
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING
Compiled by Steven Coe
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX