Fitzpatrick, Sheila

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. 1999. Everyday Stalinism Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times Soviet Russia in the i jos. New York Oxford University Press. 

Plan (Magnitogorsk), not to mention collectivization. Sheila Fitzpatrick has appropriately called this passion for sheer size giganto-mania. The economy itself was conceived as a well-ordered machine, where everyone would simply produce goods of the description and quantity specified by the central state s statistical bureau, as Lenin had foreseen. 

See, for example, ibid. Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1982) and Marc Ferro, The Bolshevik Revolution A Social History of the Russian Revolution, trans. Norman Stone (London Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980). 

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