Worker resistance under Stalin : class and revolution on the shop floor

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Label

Worker resistance under Stalin : class and revolution on the shop floor

Title remainder

class and revolution on the shop floor

Statement of responsibility

Jeffrey J. Rossman

Creator

• Rossman, Jeffrey J., 1965-

Subject

• Arbeiders
• Arbeiterbewegung
• Arbeiterbewegung -- Sowjetunion
• Arbeiterbewegung -- Streik -- Sowjetunion -- Geschichte -- 1917-1936
• HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
• History
• Industrial relations
• Industrial relations -- Soviet Union -- History
• Industrielle Beziehungen -- Sowjetunion
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process | Political Advocacy
• Politics and government
• Soviet Union
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
• Sovjet-Unie
• Sowjetunion -- Arbeiterbewegung | Streik | Geschichte -- 1917-1936
• Streik
• Streik -- Sowjetunion
• Strikes and lockouts
• Strikes and lockouts -- Soviet Union -- History
• Working class
• Working class -- Soviet Union -- History
• 1917-1936

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution \"from above\" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan. Marshaling an impressive range of archival evidence, Rossman recounts in vivid detail myriad individual and collective acts of protest, including mass demonstrations, food riots, strikes, slowdowns, violent attacks against officials, and subversive letters to the authorities. Male and female workers in one of Russia's oldest, largest, and \"reddest\" manufacturing centers--the textile plants of the Ivanovo Industrial Region--actively resisted Stalinist policies that consigned them to poverty, illness, and hunger. In April 1932, 20,000 mill workers across the region participated in a wave of strikes. Seeing the event as a rebuke to his leadership, Stalin dispatched Lazar Kaganovich to quash the rebellion, resulting in bloodshed and repression. Moscow was forced to respond to the crisis on the nation's shop floors with a series of important reforms. Rossman uncovers a new dimension to the relationship between the Soviet leadership and working class and makes an important contribution to the debate about the nature of resistance to the Stalinist regime

Member of

• Russian Research Center studies, 96

Cataloging source

MiU

Dewey number

322/.2/094709042

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Language note

In English

LC call number

HD5395

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

HD5395

NAL item number

(INTERNET)

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Russian Research Center studies

Series volume

96