The first detailed English socio-political history of Stalin's industrial revolution, during the initial Five-Year plan, depicts a period of sacrifice for the e

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a st

Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image cultu

Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was im

This book presents, above all, a study of the establishment and development of the Soviet organization and system of fashion industry and design as it gradually