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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2011, 2011
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | XII, 351 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230316669 |