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Tankograd

The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk, 1900s-1950s
By:L. Samuelson
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230208872
eText ISBN:9780230316669
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.