Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite, 1945-1953

by E. Duskin, Duskin

Overview

Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confrontation of a New Elite, 1945-53 looks at the postwar Stalin era through the eyes of industrial supervisors and offers a picture of the technical intelligentsia's transformation into the Soviet Union's social and political elite. Drawing from archives, newspapers, memoirs, and an array of secondary sources, the book reveals new aspects of the Stalin phenomenon and concludes that, contrary to prior assumptions, the late-Stalin years marked the Soviet Union's passage from the convulsion and disorder of revolution to the routinized professionalization common to most industrial societies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333918944
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/08/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	195
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

J. Eric Duskin is Assistant Professor of History, Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Tables Acknowledgements Introduction The Price of Victory Educating a New Elite Recruiting Industry's Supervisors Anointing the Masters of the Workplace The Implications of Stalin's Technocracy Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'...an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the intelligentsia, an important aspect of social and economic history in Stalin's last years.' - Derek Watson, CREES, University of Birmingham, Slavic Review

From the Publisher

A specialist on the Soviet Union, Duskin (history, Northern Illinois U.) tests the hypothesis that the technical intelligentsia's consolidation of elite status had to wait for Stalin's departure from the political scene in 1953. He explores postwar issues concerning Soviet industry's managerial hierarchies and the valuation of nativist expertise by extending the story of Soviet elite formation into the late Stalin years. The account, originally his doctoral dissertation, was first published by University Press of America in 1999. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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