cover image Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era

Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era

Stephen Kotkin. University of California Press, $26.95 (364pp) ISBN 978-0-520-07354-8

Kotkin's portrait of Magnitorgorsk, a destitute working-class town in the Urals, provides a remarkably intimate, detailed look at Soviet society in the throes of change. Photos. (Sept.)