"This dissertation investigates the impact of the Second World War on Magnitogorsk, a defense industrial center in the Urals, and its people. Drawing on interviews and sources located in Magnitogorsk and Cheliabinsk archives, this study explores the city authorities' strategies to overcome social, economic, and political problems created by the war, and the ways in which the urban inhabitants responded to governmental policies, by investigating three important aspects of postwar daily life: living conditions, labor, and social security."
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