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

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 rathe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 9 halftones, 2 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Stalinism and the Industrial State
  • I. THE STATE(S) OF THE ECONOMY IN THE LATE 1920s
  • 1. Unruly Bureaucracies, Fragmented Markets
  • 2. Wheeling and Dealing in Soviet Industry
  • 3. Rabkrin and the Militarized Campaign Economy
  • II. THE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW STATE, 1928-1930
  • 4. What Kind of State?
  • 5. The Politics of Modernization
  • III. WORKING IN THE MADHOUSE, 1930-1934
  • 6. Daily Work in the Apparat
  • 7. Purge and Patronage
  • 8. The Pathologies of Modernization
  • Conclusion: Socialism, Dictatorship, and Despotism in Stalin's Russia
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index