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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