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1 online resource (393 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
List of Tables ; Preface ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction; Workers, the State, and Perestroika ; Workers and the Problem of Class; The Limits of Class Analysis; The Plan of This Book; 1. Workers and Society: From Tsarism to Socialism; ""Prehistory"": Workers under the Tsar; Disruption and Rebuilding: Civil War and NEP; Stalin's Social Revolution; Workers: From Class to Mass; 2. A New Working Class? Hereditization and Education under Krushchev and Brezhnev; War and Aftermath; From Stalin to Khrushchev; The 1960s to the 1980s; Education: The Rising Curve |
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Work, Education, Policy: The Khrushchev ReformTo School Again: Brezhnev and Beyond; Economy and Social Structure; Toward the Possibilities of Class; 3. Forming Workers: Choice, Selection, and Tracking; Choice and Drift; Jobs and Takers; The Vocational Track; The 1984 School Reform; ""Selling"" the Reform; The End of Reform; Education, Training, and Class; 4. Work, Wages, and Welfare; The Working Class and Relative Rewards; One Class or Many? Blue-Collar Differentiation; Wages and Welfare: Appearance and Reality; Workers' Life; and How Workers View It; Gorbachev's Perestroika: Effort and Merit |
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Class and Economic Reward5. Labor, Authority, Autonomy; Stalinism and After; Work: Content and Discontent; The Workplace: Authority and Labor; Negative Control: Rank-and-File Resources; The Brigade Method: Autonomy or Control?; Pressures, Safety Valves, and the Second Economy; Perestroika, the Plant, and the Worker; Class, Work, and Authority; 6. Regime Control and Worker Opposition; Politics: The Party at the Plant; Unions: Workers' Interests, Workers' Rights; From Negative Control to Collective Protest; Organizing Worker Opposition: The Free Trade Unions -- Enter Gorbachev |
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Militancy and Class7. Worker Politics and Economic Crisis; Subsidies, Prices, Poverty; Entitlement and Entrepreneurship; Populism and Social Justice; 1989: Winter of Discontent; and Hot Summer; The Collapse of Local Apparats; Claims and Demands; Worker Power; The Unions: ""Activism"" Reasserted; ""Proletarian"" Conservatism; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Walter Connor shows how the seven decades since Stalin launched the First Five Year plan have changed Soviet workers from a disorganized mass of unskilled ex-peasants into something very much like a class--not the working class intended by Lenin and Stalin but a new and powerful ""accidental proletariat, "" produced by forces partly beyond the state's control. Does this new ""proletariat"" threaten glasnost and perestroika? To address that question, Connor examines the growth of the new ""class"" and its role in the crisis-ridden politics of Gorbachev's USSR. In this book, as in his earlier |
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Cover; Contents |
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Labor -- Soviet Union
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Working class -- Political activity -- Soviet Union
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Labor
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Working class -- Political activity
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Soviet Union
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400862405 |
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140086240X |
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