Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization

by Rosenberg, William G.; Siegelbaum, Lewis H.

• ISBN13: 9780253207722
• ISBN10: 025320772X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"This is a fine book, impressive in both quantity and quality." -- Journal of Economic History"The collection stands out as one of the most useful volumes currently available on the Soviet Union in the 1930s." -- Labour History Review"Altogether, this book succeeds in opening up the social history of the Soviet Union in the era of planning for those students and scholars who are ready to advance beyond the old stereotypes."  -- ILWCHThe pathbreaking essays assembled here examine the complex pattern of relationships between the first Five Year Plans and the society and culture of Stalinist Russia. Discussion focuses on urbanization, social mobility, questions of social identity and the cultural constructions of the industrialization drive, as well as work organization, management relations, and the underlying processes of industrial organization.

Author Biography

WILLIAM G. ROSENBERG is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of Liberals in the Russian Revolution and co-author (with Diane P. Koenker) of Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917. LEWIS H. SIEGELBAUM is Professor of Modern Russian History at Michigan State University. He is author of Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918--1929 and Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Conceptualizing the Command Economy: Western Historians on Soviet Industrialization	p. 1
The Great Departure: Rural-Urban Migration in the Soviet Union, 1929-33	p. 15
Social Mobility in the Countryside	p. 41
Peopling Magnitostroi: The Politics of Demography	p. 63
The Management of Soviet Industry, 1928-41	p. 105
The Scope, Authority, and Personnel of the New Industrial Commissariats in Historical Context	p. 124
The Commander and the Rank and File: Managing the Soviet Coal-Mining Industry, 1928-33	p. 146
Masters of the Shop Floor: Foremen and Soviet Industrialization	p. 166
Factories within Factories: Changes in the Structure of Work and Management in Soviet Machine-Building Factories, 1926-34	p. 193
Criminal Justice and the Industrial Front	p. 223
Engineers of Human Souls in an Age of Industrialization: Changing Cultural Models, 1929-41	p. 248
Soviet Industrialization from a European Perspective	p. 265
On Soviet Industrialization	p. 272
Guide to Further Reading	p. 285
Contributors	p. 290
Index	p. 292
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