Worker Resistance under Stalin

Worker Resistance under Stalin PDF

Author: Jeffrey J ROSSMAN

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0674042905

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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.

Bitter Waters

Bitter Waters PDF

Author: Gennady M. Andreev-Khomiakov

Publisher: Westview Press

Published: 1998-08-14

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0813323746

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Focusing on life and work after the author's release in 1935 from a Soviet labor camp, his story is told chronologically, and begins with his difficulties finding a job in the Russian provinces. This memoir may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society and economy and the indomitable creativity with which ordinary people sustained both their lives.

Everyday Stalinism

Everyday Stalinism PDF

Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-03-04

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0195050002

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Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.

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