TY  - BOOK
AU  - Depretto,Jean-Paul
TI  - Kuznetskstroy: A Major Project of the First Soviet Five-Year Plan
PY  - 2000///.
							
N1  - 11
N2  - This article seeks to fill a void in historical research by studying the formation of the worker’s community of Kuznetskstroy in Western Siberia during the first Soviet five-year plan. The construction of the Kuznetsk metallurgy complex, often touted by Soviet propaganda, was achieved by a combination of free wage-earning employees, prisoners and “special settlers” (deported “kulaks”). The author has relied on printed sources and Siberian archives to describe how normal, everyday life co-existed with barbarian forced labour and reaches the conclusion that the degree of divisiveness among the personnel kept them from forming a working class that could stand up to the authorities
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-geneses-2000-2-page-5?lang=en
ER  -