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By Deborah A. Kaple

ISBN-10: 0195083156

ISBN-13: 9780195083156

ISBN-10: 1429405651

ISBN-13: 9781429405652

Drawing on formerly unknown basic assets in either chinese language and Russian, Deborah A. Kaple has written a robust and soaking up account of the version of manufacturing unit administration and association that the chinese language communists formulated within the 1949-1953 interval. She unearths that their "new" administration ideas have been tailored from Soviet propaganda through the harsh interval of Stalin's post-war reconstruction. The idealized Stalinist administration approach consisted commonly of strict Communist get together keep watch over of all elements of employees' lives, that is the foundation of such robust get together keep an eye on over chinese language society this present day. Dream of a purple Factory is an extraordinary and revealing examine the consolidation rule in China; informed in the course of the prism of the improvement of recent "socialist" factories and firms. Kaple thoroughly counters the outdated fable of the "Soviet monolith" in China, and thoroughly reconstructs how the chinese language communists got here to depend on an idealized, propagandistic model of the Soviet version instead.

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2; September 1938-1939) (USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Legal Materials on the Former Japanese Army's Alleged Preparation for the Use of Germ Warfare Living Conditions of the Russian Workers and Farmers and Their Struggle for Liberation Methods of Further Developing Soviet Agriculture (resolution, September 7, 1953) Methods of Further Developing Soviet Agriculture (report on the plenary session of the CPSU Central Committee, September 3, 1953, by N. S. Khrushchev) Summary Report on Implementing the Fourth Five-Year Plan of 19461950 (the first postwar five-year plan) (issued by the Soviet National Planning Committee and the Soviet Central Bureau of Statistics) Summary Report on Implementing the Soviet 1951 Annual Plan on the Development of the Domestic Economy Linguistics Textbook of Russian Language Chinese-Russian Dictionary Russian-Chinese Dictionary Introduction to the Soviet Union A Revived People (of the Far East) (T.

Source: Narodnoe khozyaistvo SSSR; statisticheskii sbornik [The national economy of the USSR; statistical handbook] (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe statisticheskoe izdatel'stvo, 1956), p. 190. 10 The addition of nearly 12 million recruits to the labor force between 1945 and 1950 was the largest increase in Soviet history, with the exception of that during the First Five-Year Plan period. Demobilized soldiers were the largest group among the new recruits. 11 Table 2, which illustrates Gosplan USSR's recruitment plan for work in construction, industry, and transport in 1946, shows that demobilized soldiers greatly increased the ranks of workers.

I. Khlusov, Promyshlennost' i rabochii klass SSSR, 1946—1950; dokumenty i materialy [Industry and the working class in the USSR, 1946-1950; documents and materials] (Moscow: Nauka, 1989), pp. 178-79. workers. 25 The majority of this training took place on the job, with "no break from work" (bez otryva ot proizvodstva). Unfortunately, there is little indication of the quality or length of such training programs. Again, the successes of Soviet recruitment and training programs do not necessarily represent the actual situation.

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