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Name: Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity : Conference : Papers
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Author: Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
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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 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

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The experiences of Russia and the Soviet Union have long been of more than academic interest.

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Title Making Workers Soviet
Author Lewis H. Siegelbaum (Editor); Ronald Grigor Suny (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 416
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
Publication date 1994-12-22
ISBN 9780801482113 / 0801482119
Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
Dimensions 9.25 x 6.25 x 1.07 in (23.50 x 15.88 x 2.72 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Russian
Category Sociology
Library of Congress subjects Working class - Soviet Union - Congresses, Soviet Union - Social conditions - Congresses
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94-21989
Dewey Decimal Code 305.562

About the author

Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Professor of History at Michigan State University. His previous books include Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929. Ronald Grigor Suny is Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books, most recently, The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.