Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and IdentityLewis H. Siegelbaum, Ronald Grigor Suny 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. Contributors: Victoria E. Bonnell; Sheila Fitzpatrick; Heather Hogan; Diane P. Koenker; Stephen Kotkin; Hiroaki Kuromiya; Moshe Lewin; Daniel Orlovsky; Gabor T. Rittersporn; Lewis H. Siegelbaum; S. A. Smith; Mark D. Steinberg; Ronald Grigor Suny; Chris Ward; Reginald E. Zelnik |
Contents
Class Backwards? In Search of the Soviet Working Class I | 1 |
Life Histories and Identities of Some | 27 |
Vanguard Workers and the Morality of Class | 66 |
Class Formation in the St Petersburg Metalworking | 85 |
Workers against Foremen in St Petersburg 19051917 | 113 |
Donbas Miners in War Revolution and Civil War | 138 |
Class Values | 159 |
Languages of Trade or a Language of Class? Work Culture | 194 |
WhiteCollar Workers in the Soviet | 220 |
On Politics | 253 |
Workers Lives in Stalins Showcase | 274 |
The Impact of the Great Purges | 311 |
The Iconography of the Worker in Soviet Political Art | 341 |
Concluding Remarks | 376 |
Contributors | 391 |
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