The Accidental Proletariat : : Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia / / Walter D. Connor.

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 pro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1991
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 163
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Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Workers and Society: From Tsarism to Socialism
  • 2. A New Working Class ? Hereditization and Education under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
  • 3. Forming Workers: Choice, Selection, and Tracking
  • 4. Work, Wages, and Welfare
  • 5. Labor, Authority, Autonomy
  • 6. Regime Control and Worker Opposition
  • 7. Worker Politics and Economic Crisis
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index