A Dream Deferred: New Studies in Russian and Soviet Labour History: 11 (International & comparative social history) - Softcover

Goldman, Wendy Z.; Pirani, Simon; Filtzer, Donald; Kessler, Gijs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3039117971 ISBN 13: 9783039117970

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Críticas:

" (...) ce livre, ou chacun puisera en fonction de ses centres d'interets, merite l'appreciation la plus elogieuse : il restera comme un ouvrage de reference, du aux meilleurs specialistes du domaine. Ecrit par des chercheurs de cinq pays, il fait le point sur l'etat de notre connaissance du monde du travail russe et sovietique. C'est donc un guide precieux qui offre une tres riche information. " (Jean-Paul Depretto, Cahiers du Monde Russe) "'A Dream Deferred' is a very good introduction to recent Russian and Soviet labour historiography. (...) The volume presents an excellent sample of recent social and labour historiography in a form accessible to students and interested non-specialists as well as to scholars." (Michael C. Hickey, Revolutionary Russia)

Biografía del autor:

The Editors: Donald Filtzer (1948) is Professor of Russian History at the University of East London, United Kingdom. Wendy Z. Goldman (1956) is Professor in the Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Gijs Kessler (1969) is Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Simon Pirani (1957) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies at Oxford University, United Kingdom.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3039117971
• ISBN 13: 9783039117970
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 508