Making Workers Soviet : Power, Class, and Identity /

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Drawing on such diverse sources as propaganda art, the trade union press, workers' memoirs, and materials in recently opened Soviet archives, this is the first book to examine the shifting identity of the "working class" in late tsarist and early Soviet societies. New essays by fiftee...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Suny, Ronald Grigor (Editor), Siegelbaum, Lewis H. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Arbeidersklasse.
Arbeiterklasse
Working class.
Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Travailleurs > URSS > Congres.
Working class > Soviet Union > Congresses.
Sowjetunion.
Sowjetunion
Russland
Soviet Union.
URSS > Conditions sociales > Congres.
Soviet Union > Social conditions > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Drawing on such diverse sources as propaganda art, the trade union press, workers' memoirs, and materials in recently opened Soviet archives, this is the first book to examine the shifting identity of the "working class" in late tsarist and early Soviet societies. New essays by fifteen leading historians show how Russian workers responded to attempts to make them Soviet. Initial chapters consider power relations and working-class identity in imperial Russia. The effects of the revolutionary upheavals of 1917 to 1921 on labor relations among printers and coal miners are then discussed. Addressing subsequent decades, other essays document the situation of cotton workers and white-collar workers embroiled within the ambiguities of the New Economic Policy or challenge the appropriateness of "class" analysis for the Stalin era. Additional chapters reconstruct workers' responses to the Great Purges and trace the significance of class in visual and verbal discourse. Making Workers Soviet will be central to the current rethinking of Soviet history and of class formation in noncapitalist settings. Contributors: Victoria E. Bonnell; Sheila Fitzpatrick; Heather Hogan; Diane P. Koenker; Stephen Kotkin; Hiroaki Kuromiya; Moshe Lewin; Daniel Orlovsky; Gabor T. Rittersporn; Lewis H. Siegelbaum; S.A. Smith; Mark D. Steinberg; Ronald Grigor Suny; Chris Ward; Reginald E. Zelnik
Item Description:"Originated in a conference held at Michigan State University in November 1990"--Preface
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501718144

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