Titlebook: Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite, 1945-1953; J. Eric Duskin Book 2001 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmil

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ssumptions, 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.978-1-4039-1945-8

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Book 2001s, 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.

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Educating a New Elite,more contentious issue, as we know, was whether workers or technical specialists were better suited to serve in these hierarchies. Stalin weighed in on this debate when he informed economic officials in 1931 that he wanted the “new leaders” of Soviet industry recruited from both “those who have had

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Anointing the Masters of the Workplace, Union’s brickmasons, he announced, should set the pace for the country’s reconstruction.. Two weeks later, Maksimenko himself set a new world record of 121,300 bricks laid in eight hours.. Party officials lavished Maksimenko with praise as a Stakhanovite hero, and newspapers throughout the land pro

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,The Implications of Stalin’s Technocracy,to most industrial societies. In the late Stalin years the career paths offering status and security became more clearly delineated, and for industrial supervisors, their families, and even their employees, life became more predictable. The stability and emerging normalcy of the era were new and wel

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Introduction,t movement, wrote that for days after Stalin died “people roamed the streets, distraught and confused, with funeral music in the background. I too got carried away.”. Only in the dictator’s notorious labor camps was the news of Stalin’s passing greeted with nearly unanimous shouts of joy.