Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914 - Brossura

Bonnell, Victoria E.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520051149 ISBN 13: 9780520051140

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1984

Riassunto

Roots of Rebellion is the first comprehensive history of workers' political attitudes and organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow during the final years of the tsarist era. In this richly documented study, Victoria Bonnell examines the workers' persistent efforts to combine collectively and to assert and defend their rights in the workplace and society at large. Focusing on trade unions, the most important legal labor organizations in pre-revolutionary Russia, she analyzes the complex interaction among workers, employers, political parties, and the state, and the circumstances that drove many workers in a revolutionary direction.

Drawing on a wide range of archival and published sources, memoirs, and statistical materials, the author presents an account of the workers' milieu and their organizations on the eve of 1905, the formation of factory committees, soviets, and trade unions during the First Russian Revolution, and the subsequent evolution of the newly-legalized trade unions until the outbreak of World War I. Professor Bonnell's close investigation of the social bases of labor activism and political radicalism brings to light the outstanding role that skilled workers, particularly artisans and skilled factory groups, played int he labor movement.

The book offers new perspectives on the sources of solidarity and radicalism among Russian workers and their conceptions of class, craft, and citizenship during the last decades of the old regime. It will be read with interest by historians, social scientists, and others seeking to understand the origins and background of a major revolutionary upheaval of the modern age.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Victoria E. Bonnell is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author ofIconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin (California, 1997) and the editor ofThe Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime (California, 1983).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520051149
• ISBN 13: 9780520051140
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile