Question
Stephen Kotkin, the first American to enter this city in 45 years, used it as a case study in a microhistory analyzing “Stalinism as a Civilization.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this closed Soviet city that was transformed into an industrial complex based on designs by the American firm Arthur G. McKee and Co., effectively serving as the planned crown jewel of the first Five-Year Plan.
ANSWER: Magnitogorsk (Kotkin’s book is Magnetic Mountain.)
[10m] In the second Five-Year Plan, Magnitogorsk was a hub for a high-production labor movement named for this man, whom Soviet authorities propagandistically heroized after he reportedly mined 102 tons of coal in one shift.
ANSWER: Alexey Stakhanov [accept Stakhanovite movement; accept Stakhanovism]
[10e] Stakhanov gained fame after a propaganda campaign in this newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the Soviet Communist Party. This newspaper’s name means “truth.”
ANSWER: Pravda
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 17 | 18.24 | 100% | 53% | 29% |
Data
| Chicago B | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| McGill A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | South Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Harvard A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Indiana A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland A | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL B | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |