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

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.

Author: L. Samuelson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/30/2011
Pages: 351
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780230208872

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2012

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.