Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite, 1945-1953 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333918944)

Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confrontation of a New Elite, 1945-53 looks at the postwar Stalin era through the eyes of industrial supervisors and offers a picture of the technical intelligentsia's transformation into the Soviet Union's social and political elite. Drawing from archives, newspapers, memoirs, and an array of secondary sources, the book reveals new aspects of the Stalin phenomenon and concludes that, contrary to prior assumptions, the late-Stalin years marked the Soviet Union's passage from the convulsion and disorder of revolution to the routinized professionalization common to most industrial societies.

Author: E. Duskin
ISBN-10: 0333918940
ISBN-13: 9780333918944
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2001
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.88w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 77