Donald A. Filtzer Livres

Focusing on the experiences of Soviet industrial workers during the Khrushchev era, this comprehensive study delves into their social, economic, and political conditions. It examines the impact of Khrushchev's policies on labor dynamics and worker morale, highlighting the challenges faced by the workforce amidst significant industrial changes. Through detailed analysis, the book provides insights into the broader implications of these developments for Soviet society during a transformative period.

This volume brings together the latest work in Russian labour history, based on exciting materials from previously closed archives and collections. Sixteen essays, focusing on peasants and workers, explore the lives and struggles of working people. Ranging over a century of dramatic upheaval, from the late 1800s to the present, the essays are organized around three broad themes: workers’ politics, incentives and coercion within industrial and rural workplaces, and household strategies. The volume explores the relationship between the peasantry and the working class, a nexus that has been central to state policy, oppositional politics, economic development, and household configuration. It profiles a working class rent by divisions and defined not only by its relationship to the workplace or the state, but also by its household strategies for daily survival. The essays explore many topics accessible for the first time, including the motivations of women workers, roots of revolutionary activism, the revolutionary movement outside the great cities, socialist opposition to the Soviet regime, reactions of workers to Stalinist terror, socialist tourism, peasant families in forced exile, and work discipline on the collective farms.