The Accidental Proletariat : Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia

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Walter Connor shows how the seven decades since Stalin launched the First Five Year plan have changed Soviet workers from a disorganized mass of unskilled ex-peasants into something very much like a class--not the working class intended by Lenin and Stalin but a new and powerful ""accident...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Connor, Walter D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class > Political activity.
Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Travailleurs > Activite politique > URSS.
Travail > URSS.
Working class > Political activity > Soviet Union.
Labor > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Walter Connor shows how the seven decades since Stalin launched the First Five Year plan have changed Soviet workers from a disorganized mass of unskilled ex-peasants into something very much like a class--not the working class intended by Lenin and Stalin but a new and powerful ""accidental proletariat, "" produced by forces partly beyond the state's control. Does this new ""proletariat"" threaten glasnost and perestroika? To address that question, Connor examines the growth of the new ""class"" and its role in the crisis-ridden politics of Gorbachev's USSR. In this book, as in his earlier
Item Description:Cover; Contents.
Physical Description:1 online resource (396 pages).
ISBN:9781400862405

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