Stalinism and Soviet Rail Transport, 1928–41

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. The Years of Forced Development, 1928–30

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4. The Transport Crisis, 1931

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5. Rail Transport under Strain, 1932–33

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6. Steady Recovery and Future Prospects, 1934

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7. The Year of Advance, 1935

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8. The Watershed Year, 1936

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9. The Year of the Purge, 1937

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10. Rail Transport and War Preparations, 1938–41

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11. Conclusion

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12. Back Matter

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This work provides an in-depth case-study of decision-making in the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It focuses on the development of rail transport policy, upon which the entire economy as well as the country's defence were so crucially dependent. It analyses the role of institutional lobbies in shaping policy, and sheds new light on the Stakhanovite movement, and analyses for the first time the impact of the Great Purges on the railways. The work provides a critical examination of the adequacy of existing conceptualisations of the Stalinist state.

• Russia
• Soviet Union
• Stalin
• transport
• transport policy
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

• Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

  E. A. Rees

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