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Tankograd

The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk, 1900s-1950s

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  1. Lennart Samuelson

    1. Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Cheliabinsk As a Mirror of Russia in the 20th Century

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 1-12

  3. From the Civil War to the Five-year Plans

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 13-68

  4. The Industrial City As a Socialist Vision and Soviet Reality

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 69-102

  5. The Tractor Factory’s Civilian Production and Military Potential

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 103-133

  6. Stagnation and Streamlining in the Whirlwinds of Terror, 1936–1939

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 134-162

  7. Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk, 1939–1940

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 163-182

  8. Production Conditions for Heavy Tanks in the Urals

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 183-216

  9. 1418 Long Days on the Home Front in the Southern Urals

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 217-254

  10. The New Military-Industrial Complex in Cheliabinsk during the Cold War

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 255-277

  11. Historical Memory and Research in Today’s Cheliabinsk

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 278-289

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 290-351
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A major production site of Soviet KV and T-34 tanks in WWII, the town of Cheliabinsk in the Urals was nicknamed 'Tankograd', its civilian machine-building factories swiftly converted to arms production. This book gives a social, economic and political panorama that describes everyday life in a typical Soviet company town during the Stalin era.

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  • Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

    Lennart Samuelson

About the author

LENNART SAMUELSON has been doing Archival Research in Russia since the early 1990s. His publications include Plans for Stalin's War-Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941 and Stalin, NKVD and the Repressions, 1936-1938, co-authored with Vladimir Khaustov.

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