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Stephen Kotkin, Steeltown U.S.S.R.: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. xxx, 269 pp. $24.95.

Stephen Kotkin, Steeltown U.S.S.R.: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era. Berkeley and Los... painfully aware o f t h e profoundly ambiguous, contradictory nature o f the Soviet project. As Scott writes, M a g n i t o g o r s k was built both "with a disregard for individuals and a mass heroism seldom paralleled in history." In this regard, Scott's book stands at a kind o f a temporal mid-way point in the literature o f what might be called the moral history o f the Soviet Union: it looks back to the short stories o f Isaac B a b e l ' s K o n a r m i i a , which in the 1920s explored the gray areas o f the O c t o b e r Revolution in ways u n m a t c h e d by any prose writer, and forward to the quasi-journalism o f A. Siniavskii/A. Tertz, whose T r i a l B e g i n s e x p l i c i t l y p u r s u e d t h e verv q u e s t i o n o f means and ends that underlies http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Stephen Kotkin, Steeltown U.S.S.R.: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. xxx, 269 pp. $24.95.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 28 (3): 337 – Jan 1, 1994

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Brill
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© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
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10.1163/221023994X00765
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painfully aware o f t h e profoundly ambiguous, contradictory nature o f the Soviet project. As Scott writes, M a g n i t o g o r s k was built both "with a disregard for individuals and a mass heroism seldom paralleled in history." In this regard, Scott's book stands at a kind o f a temporal mid-way point in the literature o f what might be called the moral history o f the Soviet Union: it looks back to the short stories o f Isaac B a b e l ' s K o n a r m i i a , which in the 1920s explored the gray areas o f the O c t o b e r Revolution in ways u n m a t c h e d by any prose writer, and forward to the quasi-journalism o f A. Siniavskii/A. Tertz, whose T r i a l B e g i n s e x p l i c i t l y p u r s u e d t h e verv q u e s t i o n o f means and ends that underlies

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Published: Jan 1, 1994

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