Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization by Stephen Kotkin

Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization

Stephen Kotkin

728 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced

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This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response t...

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