Tankograd: The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk, 1900s-1950s

Cover......Page 1
Halftitle......Page 2
Alsoby......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 Cheliabinsk As a Mirror of Russia in the 20th Century......Page 14
2 From the Civil War to the Five-year Plans......Page 26
The Civil War in the Southern Urals......Page 33
The Battle of Cheliabinsk, July–August 1919......Page 41
Militarisation of labour and force against the peasantry......Page 46
Recovery under the New Economic Policy......Page 52
A new industrial landscape emerges......Page 53
Transformation of the countryside: collectivisation and dekulakisation......Page 61
3 The Industrial City As a Socialist Vision and Soviet Reality......Page 82
The changing character of Cheliabinsk city in the 1930s......Page 91
Sotsgorodók – a socialist ideal for the tractorfactory city district......Page 97
Barracks for industrial workers in ‘shanty towns’......Page 103
Health care and education......Page 107
Sport......Page 112
4 The Tractor Factory’s Civilian Productionand Military Potential......Page 116
Foreign specialists......Page 125
The significance of the tractor factory for the Red Army......Page 131
Evolution of the military doctrine......Page 136
Military-economic preparedness:The ChTZ enterprise in the 1930s......Page 141
5 Stagnation and Streamlining in theWhirlwinds of Terror, 1936–1939......Page 147
Purges of party members in 1937–1938......Page 151
Repression against technicians, engineers andleading cadres in the economy......Page 156
Mass repression campaigns......Page 163
Lavrentii Beria and the streamlining ofNKVD internal affairs......Page 167
6 Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk, 1939–1940......Page 176
The USSR’s preparations for war in 1941......Page 187
The start of tank production at theCheliabinsk Tractor Factory......Page 189
7 Production Conditions for Heavy Tanks in the Urals......Page 196
The establishment of ‘Tankograd’......Page 204
The final battle for Berlin......Page 226
8 1418 Long Days on the Home Front in the Southern Urals......Page 230
Evacuation and conversion of industry......Page 233
Working conditions in Tankograd......Page 239
Soviet Germans build the new iron andsteel works in Cheliabinsk......Page 250
The countryside......Page 254
The political information sphere in the Urals......Page 262
Victory Day 1945 in the Southern Urals......Page 265
9 The New Military-Industrial Complex inCheliabinsk during the Cold War......Page 268
The reconversion of the tractor factory after the war......Page 271
The labour force......Page 274
Housing conditions......Page 277
The end of the career of the ‘Kings of Tanks’......Page 280
Youth protests in post-war Cheliabinsk......Page 281
The closed atomic cities in the Cheliabinsk region......Page 285
10 Historical Memory and Research in Today’s Cheliabinsk......Page 291
Notes......Page 303
Bibliography......Page 340
Index......Page 358