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The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev´s Russia
Walter D. Connor
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Description for The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev´s Russia
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPA; JPF; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Walter Connor shows how the seven decades since Stalin launched the First Five Year plan have changed Soviet workers from a disorganized mass of unskilled ex-peasants into something very much like a class--not the working class intended by Lenin and Stalin but a new and powerful accidental proletariat, produced by forces partly beyond the state's control. Does this new proletariat threaten glasnost and perestroika? To address that question, Connor examines the growth of the new class and its role in the crisis-ridden politics of Gorbachev's USSR. In this book, as in his earlier works, ... Read more
Walter Connor shows how the seven decades since Stalin launched the First Five Year plan have changed Soviet workers from a disorganized mass of unskilled ex-peasants into something very much like a class--not the working class intended by Lenin and Stalin but a new and powerful accidental proletariat, produced by forces partly beyond the state's control. Does this new proletariat threaten glasnost and perestroika? To address that question, Connor examines the growth of the new class and its role in the crisis-ridden politics of Gorbachev's USSR. In this book, as in his earlier works, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
394
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691633992
SKU
V9780691633992
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