Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution 9781400832552, 9780691144313, 1400832551

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to

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Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution
9781400832552, 9780691144313, 1400832551

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to

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During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industria

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Compares the wages of farm laborers with those of factory workers from 1914-1944. Examines why one group's wages in

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Shares letters to and from women who worked in textile factories before the Civil War and have letters which have surviv

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In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 millio

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The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution which took place in Great Britain between the middle of the eightee

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Alex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganize

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In this penetrating narrative account, Hessler investigates China's lurch into modernity as he survives the advent

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EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winn

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This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand ac

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