Stalin’s Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932

by Hiroaki Kuromiya

This is the first detailed political and social history in English of Stalin's industrial revolution during the first Five-Year Plan. The diversion of vast resources into industrialization severely squeezed national consumption, imposing a heavy burden and sacrifice on the entire nation.

Genres: History, Soviet Union, Russia

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Hiroaki Kuromiya
Professor, Department of History

Education
B.A. at Tokyo University, 1977
M.A. at Tokyo University, 1979
Ph.D. at Princeton University, 1985

Research Interests
Modern Eurasia

Courses Recently Taught (at Indiana University Bloomington)
Various courses related to the history of Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union as well as Stalin and Mao
The Cold War and World War II