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    From Inzhener to ITR: Russian Engineers and the First Five-Year Plan

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    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2010
    Author
    Vidumsky, John E.
    Advisor
    Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)
    Committee member
    Lockenour, Jay, 1966-
    Department
    History
    Subject
    Russian History
    Slavic Studies
    Engineer
    Stalin
    Ussr
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/3750
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/3732
    Abstract
    The Russian engineering corps was almost completely transformed during the first five-year plan, which ran from 1928-1932. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the nature of that change, and the forces that drove it. In this paper, I will argue that the corps was transformed in four fundamental ways: class composition, skill level, role in production, and political orientation. This paper begins by examining the old engineering corps on the eve of the first five year plan. Specifically, it examines Russian engineers as a subgroup of the intelligentsia, and how that problematized their relationship with power. I next examine how the Soviet government forcibly reshaped the engineering corps by pressure from above, specifically by a combination of state terror and worker-promotion campaigns. These two phenomena were closely intertwined. Along with collectivization and crash industrialization, they were part of the "Cultural Revolution" that reshaped Russian society in this period. I next examine how the campaign of terror against engineers was used by Stalin and his camp for political gain on a variety of fronts. Lastly, I will examine how engineers became part of the Soviet elite after 1931. For sources, I rely especially on the correspondence between Stalin, Kaganovich, and Molotov, which was published in the Yale University Annals of Communism series. I also draw heavily on The Harvard Refugee Interview Project, memoirs, and the collected works of Joseph Stalin.
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