Factory and community in Stalin's Russia
Subtitle: the making of an industrial working class
By: Kenneth M. Straus.
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Working class -- Soviet Union -- History; Working class -- Soviet Union -- Political activity; Communism -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: From revolutionary Russian proletariat to quiescent Soviet working class; title: Moscow's proletarian district and the hammer and sickle steel plant; title: Recruiting workers : the labor market turned upside down; title: Attaching workers : the stick, the carrot, and the labor market; title: Training workers : from apprenticeship to mass methods; title: R-r-r-r-revolutionary shock work and socialist competition; title: The factory as social melting pot; title: The factory as community organizer; title: The red directors transform Soviet industrial relations; title: The making of the new Soviet working class.