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Peasant Metropolis
David L. Hoffmann
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Description for Peasant Metropolis
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JFFM; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
During the 1930's, 23 million peasants left their villages and moved to Soviet cities, where they comprised almost half the urban population and more than half the nation's industrial workers. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials, David L. Hoffmann shows how this massive migration to the cities—an influx unprecedented in world history—had major consequences for the nature of the Soviet system and the character of Russian society even today.Hoffmann focuses on events in Moscow between the launching of the industrialization drive in 1929 and the outbreak of war in 1941. He reconstructs the attempts of Party leaders to reshape the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486609
SKU
V9780801486609
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About David L. Hoffmann
David L. Hoffmann is Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941, also from Cornell.
Reviews for Peasant Metropolis
Hoffmann develops a clear argument from beginning to end, he presents strong supporting evidence, and he writes well. His subject is the massive migration of Soviet peasants from village to city during the 1930s.... His book is a major contribution to our understanding of the creation of Soviet society and of Soviet industry.
John Bushnell
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