Title Worker resistance under Stalin : class and revolution on the shop floor / Jeffrey J. Rossman

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Russian Research Center studies ; 96 Russian Research Center studies ; 96. Contents The workers mobilize -- The Klepikov affair -- The Liulin affair -- Battle at the point of production -- To the brink of rebellion -- The Teikovo strike -- The Vichuga uprising 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-291) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Strikes and lockouts -- Soviet Union -- History Industrial relations -- Soviet Union -- History Working class -- Soviet Union -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy. HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Industrial relations Politics and government Strikes and lockouts Working class Arbeiterbewegung Streik Arbeiders. Industrielle Beziehungen -- Sowjetunion. Streik -- Sowjetunion. Arbeiterbewegung -- Sowjetunion. Arbeiterbewegung -- Streik -- Sowjetunion -- Geschichte -- 1917-1936. SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125845 Subject Soviet Union Sovjet-Unie. Sowjetunion -- Arbeiterbewegung -- Streik -- Geschichte -- 1917-1936. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2005046084 ISBN 0674019261 9780674019263 9780674042902 0674042905

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