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Author(s): Lennart Samuelson
ISBN(s): 9780230208872, 0230208878
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 7.69 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0230208878
ISBN 13: 9780230208872
Author: Lennart Samuelson

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.

Tankograd The Formation of a Soviet Company Town Cheliabinsk 1900s 1950s 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 — Before the Revolution: Cheliabinsk on the Edge of Empire (1900–1917)

  • The Trans-Siberian Railway and the Town’s Early Growth

  • Trade, Migration, and Urban Diversity

  • Local Industry and Agrarian Surroundings

  • Political Life in Late Imperial Cheliabinsk

Chapter 2 — Revolution and Civil War: A City in Turmoil (1917–1922)

  • Bolshevik Uprisings and Civil War Battles

  • The Impact of War on Urban Infrastructure

  • The Collapse of Local Governance and Reorganization

  • Workers’ Councils and the New Soviet Order

Chapter 3 — Soviet Industrialization and the Birth of Tankograd (1920s–1930s)

  • The First Five-Year Plans and Urban Transformation

  • Forced Labor and Gulag Labor in Industrial Development

  • The Establishment of Heavy Industry (Tractor Plants, Metallurgy)

  • Stalinist Urban Planning: The Company Town Model

Chapter 4 — The War Machine: Cheliabinsk Becomes Tankograd (1941–1945)

  • Wartime Evacuations and Relocations of Industry

  • The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant and the T-34 Tank

  • Life on the Home Front: Rationing, Housing, and Labor

  • Women, Youth, and Prisoners in the War Economy

  • Ideology and Patriotism in the Wartime City

Chapter 5 — After the War: Reconstruction and Control (1945–1953)

  • Demobilization and Postwar Industrial Shifts

  • Urban Expansion and Housing Crises

  • Continued Use of Forced Labor

  • Stalinist Repression and Surveillance

  • The Legacy of Tankograd: Myth and Memory

Chapter 6 — Conclusion: The Soviet Company Town in Historical Perspective

  • Comparing Cheliabinsk to Other Soviet and Western Industrial Cities

  • Tankograd as Symbol and Reality

  • The Enduring Legacies in Post-Stalin Cheliabinsk

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