Russia's Workers in Transition
Subtitle: Labor, Management, and the State Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780875802534
Subjects: Central government policies; Economic history; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Marxism & Communism; Social history; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Trade unions; Work & labour; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Labor; Labor And The State; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Working class; 1991-; Economic policy; Industrial relations; Labor policy; Russia (Federation)
Description: "How is it that the Soviet superpower became the economically dependent Russia of the late 1990s? Based upon archival research and extensive fieldwork, this study compares the policies of Gorbachev and Yeltsin as each attempted to come to grips with the Soviet economic legacy."--BOOK JACKET. "Russia's Workers in Transition will spark spirited debate among those interested in Soviet and Russian history and politics, labor policy, and democratic transitions."--BOOK JACKET.