Stalin S Railroad

Author : Matthew J. Payne
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822977346

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Stalin's Railroad by Matthew J. Payne Pdf

The Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, or Turksib, was one of the great construction projects of the Soviet Union’s First Five-Year Plan. As the major icon to ending the economic "backwardness" of the USSR’s minority republics, it stood apart from similar efforts as one of the most potent metaphors for the creation of a unified socialist nation. Built between December 1926 and January 1931 by nearly 50,000 workers and at a cost of more 161 million rubles, Turksib embodied the Bolsheviks’ commitment to end ethnic inequality and promote cultural revolution in one the far-flung corners of the old Tsarist Empire, Kazakhstan. Trumpeted as the "forge of the Kazakh proletariat," the railroad was to create a native working class, bringing not only trains to the steppes, but also the Revolution. In the first in-depth study of this grand project, Matthew Payne explores the transformation of its builders in Turksib’s crucible of class war, race riots, state purges, and the brutal struggle of everyday life. In the battle for the souls of the nation’s engineers, as well as the racial and ethnic conflicts that swirled, far from Moscow, around Stalin’s vast campaign of industrialization, he finds a microcosm of the early Soviet Union.

Author : E. A. Rees
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349237630

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Stalinism and Soviet Rail Transport, 1928–41 by E. A. Rees Pdf

This work provides an in-depth case-study of decision-making in the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It focuses on the development of rail transport policy, upon which the entire economy as well as the country's defence were so crucially dependent. It analyses the role of institutional lobbies in shaping policy, and sheds new light on the Stakhanovite movement, and analyses for the first time the impact of the Great Purges on the railways. The work provides a critical examination of the adequacy of existing conceptualisations of the Stalinist state.

Author : E. A. Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : 0333524152

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Stalinism and Soviet Rail Transport, 1928-41 by E. A. Rees Pdf

This work provides an in-depth case study of decision-making in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. It focuses on the development of a rail transport policy, upon which the entire economy as well as the entire country's defence were so crucially dependent. It analyzes the role of the institutional lobbies in shaping policy, sheds new light on the Stakhanovite movement and analyzes the impact of the Great Purges on the railways. The work provides a critical examination of the adequacy of existing conceptualizations of the Stalinist state.

Author : Bruce Elleman,Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317465461

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Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History by Bruce Elleman,Stephen Kotkin Pdf

The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria. A spur line from the Manchurian city of Harbin led south to ice-free Port Arthur. Control of these two rail lines gave Imperial Russia military, economic, and political advantages that excited rivalry on the part of Japan and unease on the part of weak and divided China. Meanwhile, the effort to defend and retain that strategic hold against rising Japanese power strained distant Moscow. Control of the Manchurian railways was contested in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5; Japan's 1931 invasion and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo; the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in Asia; and, the Chinese civil war that culminated in the Communist victory over the Nationalists. Today, the railways are critical to plans for development of China's sparsely populated interior. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore this fascinating history.

Author : Alicja Hartley, Teresa Hartley
Publisher : Memoirs Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909544772

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Midnight Train To Siberia by Alicja Hartley, Teresa Hartley Pdf

One freezing February night in 1940, fifteen-year-old Alicja Radomski, her parents and younger sister and brother were dragged from their home and forced to board a cattle train to be transported over a thousand miles to the wastes of Siberia. They were just one of many thousands of Polish families sent to labour camps by Stalin and his thugs after the Soviets seized their country at the outbreak of World War II. They became ‘non-persons’, forced to work from dawn to dusk in freezing conditions on rations scarcely fit for a rat. Ultimately, the Radomskis were among the lucky ones – they managed to survive their ordeal, to return to Europe and find new homes eventually in post-war England, where Alicja married a British serviceman and the family found peace and security. Alicja, now 89, has now told her shocking, heart-rending story with the help of her daughter Teresa.

Author : Peter Kingsford,Alex Massie,Marx Memorial Library and Workers' School
Publisher : [London] : Published for the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School by Lawrence & Wishart
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Pamphlets
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034880869

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Railways and Railwaymen in the Soviet Union by Peter Kingsford,Alex Massie,Marx Memorial Library and Workers' School Pdf

Author : Anthony Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139431255

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Modernising Lenin's Russia by Anthony Heywood Pdf

In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernization and foreign economic relations during the early Soviet period. Based on hitherto unused Russian and Western archives, he examines an extraordinary decision made in March 1920 to import vast quantities of railway equipment. The book argues that under War Communism and the NEP railway modernization was vital to a strategy of rapid economic modernization, and provides the first detailed case study of the government's import policy. Following the histories of the principal contracts, it analyses Soviet foreign trade as a means to tackle domestic economic challenges. This book provides readers with a new perspective on Soviet economic development, and reveals the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with the capitalist West immediately after the Revolution.

Author : Neil Edmunds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134415625

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Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin by Neil Edmunds Pdf

This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. It examines the different strategies adopted by composers and musicians in their attempts to carve out careers in a rapidly evolving society, discusses the role of music in Soviet society and people's lives, and shows how political ideology proved an inspiration as well as an inhibition. It explores how music and politics interacted in the lives of two of the twentieth century's greatest composers - Shostakovich and Prokofiev - and also in the lives of less well-known composers. In addition it considers the specialist composers of early Soviet musical propaganda, amateur music making, and musical life in the non-Russian republics. The book will appeal to specialists in Soviet music history, those with an interest in twentieth century music in general, and also to students of the history, culture and politics of the Soviet Union.

Author : Alfred J. Rieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107074491

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Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia by Alfred J. Rieber Pdf

This is a major re-evaluation of Soviet foreign policy in the Eurasian borderlands from the Revolution to the Cold War.

Author : David R. Shearer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501729867

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Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926–1934 by David R. Shearer Pdf

In his reexamination of the origins of the Stalinist state during the formative period of rapid industrialization in the late 1920s and early 1930s, David R. Shearer argues that a centralized state-controlled economic system was the consciously conceived political creation of Stalinist leaders rather than the inevitable by-product of socialist industrialization. Focusing on the different economic and bureaucratic cultures within the industrial system, Shearer reconstructs the debates in 1928 and 1929 over administrative, financial, and commercial reform. He uses information from recently opened archives to show that attempts by the state's trading organizations to create a commercial economy enjoyed wide support, offering a model that combined planning and rapid industrialization with social democracy and economic prosperity. In an effort to crush the syndicate movement and establish tight political control over the economy, Stalinist leaders intervened with a program of radical reforms. Shearer demonstrates that professional engineers, planners and industrial administrators in many cases actively supported the creation of a powerful industrial state unhampered by domestic social and economic constraints. The paradoxical result, Shearer shows, was a loss of control. The overly centralized system that emerged during the first Five-Year Plan was rendered incoherent by periodic economic crises and the continuing influence of partially suppressed social and market forces.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Malta Conference
ISBN : UOM:39015005362317

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The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Malta Conference
ISBN : UOM:39015004069798

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The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945 by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Mikl¢s Kun
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9639241199

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Stalin by Mikl¢s Kun Pdf

This exceptional volume of oral history contains exciting new information about Stalin's actual and political 'family', the political Mafia and the clans around him. The author has interviewed key politicians who survived the Stalin era. Kun's special expertise and his access to archival sources in Russia have resulted in a work revealing jealously guarded secrets. In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating selection from a private collection of photos of Stalin, his family members, and various political actors of the period.

Author : B. McLoughlin,K. McDermott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230523937

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Stalin’s Terror by B. McLoughlin,K. McDermott Pdf

The British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Malta Conference
ISBN : WISC:89041112244

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Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers by United States. Department of State Pdf