Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity

ISBN 10: 0801482119 / ISBN 13: 9780801482113

Published by Cornell University Press, 1994

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801482119
• ISBN 13: 9780801482113
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.