Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934

by David R. Shearer

Book Overview

In his reexamination of the origins of the Stalinist state during the formative period of rapid industrialization in the late 1920s and early 1930s, David R. Shearer argues that a centralized state-controlled economic system was the consciously conceived political creation of Stalinist leaders rather than the inevitable by-product of socialist industrialization. Focusing on the different economic and bureaucratic cultures within the industrial system,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801483859
• ISBN13: 9780801483851
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher