A Dream Deferred - New Studies in Russian and Soviet Labour History (Hardcover, New edition)

This volume brings together the latest work in Russian labour history, based on exciting materials from previously closed archives and collections. Sixteen essays, focusing on peasants and workers, explore the lives and struggles of working people. Ranging over a century of dramatic upheaval, from the late 1800s to the present, the essays are organized around three broad themes: workers' politics, incentives and coercion within industrial and rural workplaces, and household strategies. The volume explores the relationship between the peasantry and the working class, a nexus that has been central to state policy, oppositional politics, economic development, and household configuration. It profiles a working class rent by divisions and defined not only by its relationship to the workplace or the state, but also by its household strategies for daily survival. The essays explore many topics accessible for the first time, including the motivations of women workers, roots of revolutionary activism, the revolutionary movement outside the great cities, socialist opposition to the Soviet regime, reactions of workers to Stalinist terror, socialist tourism, peasant families in forced exile, and work discipline on the collective farms.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	International & comparative social history, 11
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2009
Editors:	Donald Filtzer • Wendy Z Goldman • Gijs Kessler • Simon Pirani
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	512
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911797-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	3-03-911797-1
Barcode:	9783039117970

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