Republic of Labor : : Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918–1930 / / Diane P. Koenker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Koenker, Diane P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 1 table, 1 chart/graph, 14 halftones

The long decade from the October Revolution to 1930 was the beginning of a great experiment to create a socialist society. Throughout these years, socialist trade unions attempted to transform the Russian worker into a productive and enthusiastic participant in this new order. How did the workers themselves react to these efforts? To what extent were they and their culture transformed into the ideal forms proclaimed in the official ideology? In Republic of Labor, Diane P. Koenker illuminates the lived experience of Russia's printers, workers who differed from their comrades because of their skill and higher wages, but who shared the same challenges of economic hardship and dangerous conditions. Paying close attention to the links between work, politics, and the everyday, the author focuses on workers' efforts to define their place in socialist society. Gender issues are also emphasized, and here we see the persistence of a masculinist working-class culture counterposed to an official culture promoting gender equality. Through this engaging narrative, Koenker develops a highly original discourse about class in Soviet society that will interest all students of Russian history as well as those readers who wish to reinvigorate class as a historical and sociological tool of analysis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: SOCIALISM AND THE RUSSIAN WORKING CLASS -- PART I. CIVIL WAR AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE ONE-PARTY TRADE UNION, 1918-1922 -- CHAPTER 1. THE PRINTING INDUSTRY IN THE ERA OF REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATIONS -- CHAPTER 2. THE STRUGGLE FOR R COMMUNIST PRINTERS' UNION, 1918-1922 -- CHAPTER 3. THE CIVIL WAR AND WORKING CLASS CULTURE -- PART II. THE "GOLDEN YEARS" OF THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY, 1922-192'1 -- CHAPTER 4. A NEW FOAM OF LABOR RELATIONS -- CHAPTER 5. THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY -- CHAPTER 6. NEW CULTURES OF CLASS -- PART III. THE TWISTING ROAD TO THE FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN, 192'1-1930 -- CHAPTER 7. THE INDUSTRY WITHOUT A PLAN -- CHAPTER 8. THE TWILIGHT OF THE SOCIALIST TRADE UNION -- CHAPTER 9. CLASS FORMATION OR THE UNMAKING OF THE WORKING CLASS? -- CHAPTER 10. SOVIET WORKERS AND THE SOCIALIST PROJECT -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX