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Stalin's Railroad - Turksib and the Building of Socialism (Paperback)
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Stalin's Railroad - Turksib and the Building of Socialism (Paperback)
Series: Russian and East European Studies
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The Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, or Turksib, was one of the great
construction projects of the Soviet Union\u2019s First Five-Year
Plan. As the major icon to ending the economic
\u0022backwardness\u0022 of the USSR\u2019s minority republics, it
stood apart from similar efforts as one of the most potent
metaphors for the creation of a unified socialist nation. Built
between December 1926 and January 1931 by nearly 50,000 workers and
at a cost of more 161 million rubles, Turksib embodied the
Bolsheviks\u2019 commitment to end ethnic inequality and promote
cultural revolution in one the far-flung corners of the old Tsarist
Empire, Kazakhstan. Trumpeted as the \u0022forge of the Kazakh
proletariat,\u0022 the railroad was to create a native working
class, bringing not only trains to the steppes, but also the
Revolution. In the first in-depth study of this grand project,
Matthew Payne explores the transformation of its builders in
Turksib\u2019s crucible of class war, race riots, state purges, and
the brutal struggle of everyday life. In the battle for the souls
of the nation\u2019s engineers, as well as the racial and ethnic
conflicts that swirled, far from Moscow, around Stalin\u2019s vast
campaign of industrialization, he finds a microcosm of the early
Soviet Union.
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