Tankograd

The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk, 1900s-1950s

By: Lennart Samuelson

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Hardcover | 15 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Tankograd depicts the daily life and strivings of the people in the Urals, ordinary workers, peasants, engineers and managers who transformed a slumbering provincial city to a central element in Russia's defence industry. It combines social, economic, and cultural history with military analyses of the Urals' importance for the Soviet war efforts.

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Preface	p. ix
Cheliabinsk As a Mirror of Russia in the 20th Century	p. 1
From the Civil War to the Five-year Plans	p. 13
The Civil War in the Southern Urals	p. 20
The Battle of Cheliabinsk, July-August 1919	p. 28
Militarisation of labour and force against the peasantry	p. 33
Recovery under the New Economic Policy	p. 39
A new industrial landscape emerges	p. 40
Transformation of the countryside: collectivisation and dekulakisation	p. 48
The Industrial City As a Socialist Vision and Soviet Reality	p. 69
The changing character of Cheliabinsk city in the 1930s	p. 78
Sotsgorod6k - a socialist ideal for the tractor factory city district	p. 84
Barracks for industrial workers in 'shanty towns'	p. 90
Health care and education	p. 94
Sport	p. 99
The Tractor Factory's Civilian Production and Military Potential	p. 103
Foreign specialists	p. 112
The significance of the tractor factory for the Red Army	p. 118
Evolution of the military doctrine	p. 123
Military-economic preparedness: The ChTZ enterprise in the 1930s	p. 128
Stagnation and Streamlining in the Whirlwinds of Terror, 1936-1939	p. 134
Purges of party members in 1937-1938	p. 138
Repression against technicians, engineers and leading cadres in the economy	p. 143
Mass repression campaigns	p. 150
Lavrentii Beria and the streamlining of NKVD internal affairs	p. 154
Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk, 1939-1940	p. 163
The USSR's preparations for war in 1941	p. 174
The start of tank production at the Cheliabinsk Tractor Factory	p. 176
Production Conditions for Heavy Tanks in the Urals	p. 183
The establishment of 'Tankograd'	p. 191
The final battle for Berlin	p. 213
1418 Long Days on the Home Front in the Southern Urals	p. 217
Evacuation and conversion of industry	p. 220
Working conditions in Tankograd	p. 226
Soviet Germans build the new iron and steel works in Cheliabinsk	p. 237
Prisoners of war in Cheliabinsk	p. 241
The countryside	p. 241
The political information sphere in the Urals	p. 249
Victory Day 1945 in the Southern Urals	p. 252
The New Military-Industrial Complex in Cheliabinsk during the Cold War	p. 255
The reconversion of the tractor factory after the war	p. 258
The labour force	p. 261
Housing conditions	p. 264
The end of the career of the 'Kings of Tanks'	p. 267
youth protests in post-war cheliabinsk	p. 268
The closed atomic cities in the cheliabinsk region	p. 272
Historical Memory and Research in Today's Cheliabinsk	p. 278
Notes	p. 290
Bibliography	p. 327
Index	p. 345
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