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Record Nr.

UNISA996248018103316

Autore

Straus Kenneth M. <1952->

Titolo

Factory and community in Stalin's Russia : the making of an industrial working class / / Kenneth M. Straus [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pa., : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8229-4048-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 355 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Disciplina

305.5/62/0947

Soggetti

Working class - Soviet Union - History

Working class - Soviet Union - Political activity

Communism - Soviet Union

Working class - Political activity - Soviet Union

Working class - History - Soviet Union

Business & Economics

Labor & Workers' Economics

History

Electronic books

Soviet Union Social conditions 1917-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-350) and index.

Nota di contenuto

From revolutionary Russian proletariat to quiescent Soviet working class -- Moscow's proletarian district and the hammer and sickle steel plant -- Recruiting workers : the labor market turned upside down -- Attaching workers : the stick, the carrot, and the labor market -- Training workers : from apprenticeship to mass methods -- R-r-r-r-revolutionary shock work and socialist competition -- The factory as social melting pot -- The factory as community organizer -- The red directors transform Soviet industrial relations -- The making of the new Soviet working class.

Sommario/riassunto

Straus argues that the keys for interpreting Stalinism lie in occupational specialization, on the one hand, and community organization, on the other. He focuses on the daily life (byt) of the new Soviet workers in the factory and community, arguing that the most significant new trends



saw peasants becoming open hearth steel workers, housewives becoming auto assembly line workers and machine operatives, and youth training en masse rather than in individualized apprenticeships for all types of occupations categories in the vocational schools in the factories, the FZU.

Tapping archival material only recently available and a wealth of published sources, Straus presents Soviet social history within a new analytical framework, suggesting that Stalinist forced industrialization and Soviet proletarianization is best understood within a comparative European framework, in which the theories of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber best elucidate both the broad similarities with Western trends and the striking exceptional aspects of the Soviet experience.