Making Workers Soviet : : Power, Class, and Identity / / ed. by Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Ronald Grigor Suny.

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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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 1 drawing, 9 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Archives Cited in Text
  • Class Backwards? In Search of the Soviet Working Class
  • 1. On the Eve: Life Histories and Identities of Some Revolutionary Workers, 1870-1905
  • 2. Vanguard Workers and the Morality of Class
  • 3. Class Formation in the St. Petersburg Metalworking Industry: From the "Days of Freedom'' to the Lena Goldfields Massacre
  • 4. Workers against Foremen in St. Petersburg, 1905-1917
  • 5. Donbas Miners in War, Revolution, and Civil War
  • 6. Labor Relations in Socialist Russia: Class Values and Production Values in the Printers' Union, 1917-1921
  • 7. Languages of Trade or a Language of Class? Work Culture in Russian Cotton Mills in the 1920s
  • 8. The Hidden Class: White-Collar Workers in the Soviet 1920s
  • 9. From Working Class to Urban Laboring Mass: On Politics and Social Categories in the Formative Years of the Soviet System
  • 10. Coercion and Identity: Workers' Lives in Stalin's Showcase City
  • 11. Workers against Bosses: The Impact of the Great Purges on Labor-Management Relations
  • 12. The Iconography of the Worker in Soviet Political Art
  • 13. Concluding Remarks
  • Contributors
  • Index