Word: krasnoyarsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magnitogorsk has been swallowed in the furnaces, and ore now comes from mines far away. A thousand miles deeper into Siberia is the Kuznetsk basin, where it is planned to produce 80 million tons of coal a year by 1960. Around Kuznetsk, in fast-growing industrial cities -Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, and at Karaganda some way to the southwest-are new steel mills, blast furnaces and aluminum plants, with auxiliary industries proliferating...
...seem like a pyramid in which power rises from the grass roots up through local and regional committees to the top. The West, on the other hand, usually sees the party as a "monolith," in which Stalin has only to crook his little finger to produce a purge in Krasnoyarsk. The Russian version is nonsense, but the Western idea is not quite right either. The party is in fact a highly complex mechanism which must be kept well oiled if Stalin's finger is to have the desired effect in Krasnoyarsk or anywhere else. There is evidence that since...