HIST 246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intelligentsia, Industrial Party Trial, Udarnik
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Walter duranty, soviet steel city scored in moscow, new york times, dec. 23, John scott, behind the urals: an american worker in russia"s city of steel, ch: masha (117-33) Tables: metal production at magnitogorsk, 1931-1940; living space in. Posters: five-year plan tempos (1931); counter-arithmetic of the industrial and. Financial plan (1931); our nobles (1935); we have a metro! (1935). Today"s focus is the features of the economic system and development of the peoples, and its legacies for the soviet union. Collectivization has been often criticized by humanly and economic costs. It is part of a process to adjust to the new economic realities. Legacy of industrialization was not only the industrial machine capable of defeating nazi germany, but also left the country with very particular economic system. Also had cost, as in period of hardship because of the ways in which these policies were being pursued. Chapter illustrated by john scott illustratess this very well.