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A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov
Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov
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Paperback. Translator(s): Zelnik, Reginald E. Num Pages: 508 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; BGHA; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 572.
Semën Kanatchikov, born in a central Russian village in 1879, was one of the thousands of peasants who made the transition from traditional village life to the life of an urban factory worker in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last years of the nineteenth century. Unlike the others, however, he recorded his personal and political experiences (up to the even of the 1905 Revolution) in an autobiography. First published in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, this memoir gives us the richest and most thoughtful firsthand account we have of life among the urban lower classes in Imperial Russia.
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Condition
New
Number of Pages
508
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804713313
SKU
V9780804713313
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Reviews for A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov
"This excellent translation of Kanatchikov's memoirs is a significant contribution to the field of Russian history and European labor history. The personal testimony of this extremely sensitive worker-revolutionary gives the reader a special 'feel' for the life of a Russian factory worker." -Ronald Grigor Suny ,The University of Michigan "Kanatchikov's autobiography tells us more about the social psychology of the ... Read more