Steeltown, USSR

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Steeltown, USSR is written by Stephen Kotkin and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520073533 (ISBN 10) and 9780520073531 (ISBN 13).

Kotkin offers the reader an unsurpassed portrait of daily life in the Gorbachev era. From the formation of "informal" political groups to the start-up of fledgling businesses in the new cooperative sector, from the no-holds-barred investigative reporting of a former Communist party mouthpiece to a freewheeling multicandidate election campaign, the author conveys the texture of contemporary Soviet society in the throes of an upheaval not seen since the 1930s.