The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution : February 1917-June 1918.
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TextSeries: Historical Materialism Book SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (518 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004352834
- 947.0841
- HD8530.L5 .M363 2017
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Tables -- Map -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Types of Political Culture in the Industrial Working Class of Petrograd -- Skilled Workers -- Unskilled Workers -- The 'Worker Aristocracy' -- The Generational Factor -- Chapter 2. The Social Composition of the Industrial Working Class of Petrograd and its Districts -- The Social Composition of Petrograd's Districts -- The Vyborg District -- Petergof and Narva Districts -- Vasilevskii ostrov -- Petrograd District -- Moskovskaya zastava -- Nevskii-Obukhovskii District -- Kolomna District -- Second City District -- First City District -- Rozhdestvenskii District -- Okhta and Porokhovskii Districts -- Chapter 3. The Honeymoon Period - From the February to the April Days -- The Labour Movement during the War -- The February Revolution - The Birth of Dual Power -- Attitudes Regarding State Power and the Relationship to Census Society -- Dual Power in the Light of Attitudes before the Revolution -- Why Dual Power? -- Chapter 4. The February Revolution in the Factories -- The Eight-Hour Day -- Wages -- The Press Campaign against 'Worker Egoism' -- Worker-Management Relations: 'Democratisation of Factory Life' -- Purge of the Factory Administrations -- The Factory Committees -- Chapter 5. From the April to the July Days -- The April Days -- The First Coalition Government -- The Break with Census Society -- The Underlying Causes of the Shift to Soviet Power -- The Spectre of Counterrevolution -- The 18 June Military Offensive -- Economic Regulation -- Chapter 6. The Struggle for Power in the Factories in April-June -- Chapter 7. The July Days -- The Workers and the Menshevik-SR Soviet Majority -- The July Days -- Reaction Unleashed.
Chapter 8. Rethinking the Revolution: Revolutionary Democracy or Proletarian Dictatorship? -- Census Society on the Offensive -- Final Rejection of 'Conciliationism' -- The Question of 'Revolutionary Democracy' -- Chapter 9. From the Kornilov Uprising to the Eve of October -- The Kornilov Uprising -- The Democratic Conference -- Setting Course for Soviet Power -- Chapter 10. Class Struggle in the Factories - September-October -- Factory Committees under Attack -- The Struggle for Production - Workers' Control Checked -- From Workers' Control towards Workers' Management -- Factory Committees under Pressure 'from Below' -- The Struggle for Production and the Question of State Power -- Quiet on the Wage Front -- Chapter 11. On the Eve -- Chapter 12. The October Revolution and the End of 'Revolutionary Democracy' -- Workers' Attitudes towards the Insurrection -- The Question of a 'Homogeneous Socialist Government' -- Unity from Below -- Chapter 13. The Constituent Assembly and the Emergence of a Worker Opposition -- The Elections -- Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly -- The Chernorabochie and the Upsurge of Anarchist Influence -- The Lines Harden -- Chapter 14. The October Revolution in the Factories -- 'Active' or 'Passive' Control? -- Towards Nationalisation -- Management in Nationalised Enterprises -- Chapter 15. Summon Up Every Last Ounce of Strength or Accept Defeat! -- Dispersal of Petrograd's Working Class -- The 'Obscene Peace' -- The Rise and Failure of the Opposition -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- I. Archives -- II. Published Documents and Statistics -- III. Workers' Memoirs -- IV. Other Memoirs -- V. Press and Periodicals -- VI. Histories of Factories, Unions, Industries -- VII. Secondary Studies -- Index of Names and Subjects.
The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of revolution 'from below', from the industrial districts of Russia's capital. It allows the workers speak for themselves, as conscious, creative subjects of the revolutionary process.
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