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9780822941668

Stalin's Railroad

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822941668

  • ISBN10:

    082294166X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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Summary

The Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, or Turksib, was one of the great construction projects of the Soviet Unionrs"s First Five-Year Plan. As the major icon to ending the economic "backwardness" of the USSRrs"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 Bolsheviksrs" 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 Turksibrs"s crucible of class war, race riots, state purges, and the brutal struggle of everyday life. In the battle for the souls of the nationrs"s engineers, as well as the racial and ethnic conflicts that swirled, far from Moscow, around Stalinrs"s vast campaign of industrialization, he finds a microcosm of the early Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables
vi
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(10)
The Politics of Planning
11(28)
Managerial Hegemony: Spetsy and Reds
39(28)
Turksib's ``Motley'' Workforce
67(32)
The Fall of the Bourgeois Specialists
99(27)
Forge of a Native Proletariat?
126(30)
The Struggle to Control Kontrol'
156(27)
A New Commanding Staff
183(26)
Reforging the Working Class
209(37)
The New Industrial Order and Edinonachalie
246(21)
Controlling the Unruly Working Class
267(19)
Conclusion: Legacies 286(15)
Notes 301(56)
Glossary of Russian Terms 357(6)
Bibliography 363(14)
Index 377

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