The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry
The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry

Author: Craig ZumBrunnen

Publisher: Government Institutes

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780865981584

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In this empirically based study, ZumBrunnen and Osleeb present a current, comprehensive, and in-depth view of Soviet heavy industry capacity and suggest that significant changes in production locations and manufacturing efficiency levels are warranted. Using a mathematical model to analyze the optimal locations for Soviet iron and steel production, they predict probable shifts in industry locations, output, and processes at both existing locations and future centers up to the year 1990.

Behind the Urals
Behind the Urals

Author: John Scott

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780253351258

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John Scott's classic account of his five years as a worker in the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the 1930s, first published in 1942, is enhanced in this edition by Stephen Kotkin's introduction, which places the book in context for today's readers; by the texts of three debriefings of Scott conducted at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1938 and published here for the first time; and by a selection of photographs showing life in Magnitogorsk in the 1930s. No other book provides such a graphic description of the life of workers under the First Five-Year Plan.

Stalin
Stalin

Author: Albert Marrin

Publisher: Beautiful Feet Books, Inc.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781893103092

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Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel

Author: Mary R. Habeck

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 0801471389

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In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle. Only in Germany and the Soviet Union were truly original armor doctrines (generally known as "blitzkreig" and "deep battle") fully implemented. Storm of Steel relates how the German and Soviet armies formulated and chose to put into practice doctrines that were innovative for the time, yet in many respects identical to one another.As part of her extensive archival research in Russia, Germany, and Britain, Habeck had access to a large number of formerly secret and top-secret documents from several post-Soviet archives. This research informs her comparative approach as she looks at the roles of technology, shared influences, and assumptions about war in the formation of doctrine. She also explores relations between the Germans and the Soviets to determine whether collaboration influenced the convergence of their armor doctrines.