Author: KOTKIN, STEPHEN
Title: Steeltown, Ussr: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era
Description: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. Softcover. Remainder; B & W photographs & Maps; 6 X 8 3/4"; xxiii, 291 pages; Soft cover has black spine with yellow lettering. Black remainder mark on bottom of text block. Slight rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. 'No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation eventually affecting the entire postwar world order, are here chronicled from inside a previously forbidden Soviet city, Magnitogorsk. Built under Stalin and championed by him as a showcase of socialism, the city remained closed to Western scrutiny until four years ago, when Stephen Kotkin became the first American to live there in nearly half a century. An uncommonly perceptive observer, a gifted writer, and a first-rate social scientist, Kotkin offers the reader an unsurpassed portrait of daily life in the Gorbachev era...' Index.. Near Fine .

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