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Koenker, Diane P.

 
9780801443084: Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918–1930
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ISBN 10 : 0801443083 ISBN 13 : 9780801443084
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The long decade from the October Revolution to 1930 was the beginning of a great experiment to create a socialist society. Throughout these years, socialist trade unions attempted to transform the Russian worker into a productive and enthusiastic participant in this new order. How did the workers themselves react to these efforts? To what extent were they and their culture transformed into the ideal forms proclaimed in the official ideology?

In Republic of Labor, Diane P. Koenker illuminates the lived experience of Russia's printers, workers who differed from their comrades because of their skill and higher wages, but who shared the same challenges of economic hardship and dangerous conditions. Paying close attention to the links between work, politics, and the everyday, the author focuses on workers' efforts to define their place in socialist society. Gender issues are also emphasized, and here we see the persistence of a masculinist working-class culture counterposed to an official culture promoting gender equality. Through this engaging narrative, Koenker develops a highly original discourse about class in Soviet society that will interest all students of Russian history as well as those readers who wish to reinvigorate class as a historical and sociological tool of analysis.

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À propos de l'auteur

Diane P. Koenker is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Editor of Slavic Review. She is the author of several books including Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution, coauthor of Strikes in Revolution, Russia 1917, and coeditor and translator of Notes of a Red Guard. From Cornell, she authored Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930, and coedited Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism with Anne E. Gorsuch.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801443083
ISBN 13 
9780801443084
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
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