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.

Auteur
LENNART SAMUELSON has been doing Archival Research in Russia since the early 1990s. His publications include Plans for Stalin's War-Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941 and Stalin, NKVD and the Repressions, 1936-1938, co-authored with Vladimir Khaustov.

Contenu
List of Illustration Foreword Cheliabinsk as a Mirror of Russia in the Twentieth Century From the Civil War to the Five-year Plans The Industrial City as Socialist Vision and Soviet Reality The Tractor Factory's Civilian Production and Military Potential Stagnation and Streamlining in the Whirlwinds of Terror, 193639 Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk 19391940 Production Conditions for Heavy Tanks in the Urals 1418 Long Days on the Home Front in the Southern Urals The New Military-Industrial Complex in Cheliabinsk during the Cold War Historical Memory and Research in Today's Cheliabinsk Bibliography Index