1st Edition
The Life and Death of Trade Unionism in the USSR, 1917-1928
Edited By Jay Sorenson
Copyright 2010
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
311 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Russian Revolution excited men, and captured their imaginations. It seemed to herald the fulfillment of the nineteenth-century socialist movement. Socialists believed that with the proper use of technocracy they could scourge poverty and hunger from the earth. They felt that a social system based on equality and social justice could overcome the traditional division of each society into rich... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 On the Threshold 2 The Dilemma of Power 3 Round Two: The Affiliated Unions 4 Industrial Relations: 1917-1921 5 The Union Question Internalized: Political Fragmentation 6 The Union Question Internalized: Dictatorship Within the Party 7 An Ethic of Work 8 The Party, Unions, and Dictatorship 9 The Social Problem 10 Unions, Leaders, and Members: Bureaucracy and Membership Rift 11 Union Performance, Economic Backwardness 12 Unions and the Succession Question 13 Conclusion NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Biography
Gunter Bischof
