Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the ‘West’ wrote its history of the USSR
- Part I Russia and the Soviet Union: The Story through Time
- Part II Russia and the Soviet Union: Themes and Trends
- 14 Economic and demographic change: Russia’s age of economic extremes
- 15 Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development
- 16 Workers and industrialization
- 17 Women and the state
- 18 Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after
- 19 The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Baltics
- 20 Science, technology and modernity
- 21 Culture, 1900–1945
- 22 The politics of culture, 1945–2000
- 23 Comintern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919–1941
- 24 Moscow’s foreign policy, 1945–2000: identities, institutions and interests
- 25 The Soviet Union and the road to communism
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
16 - Workers and industrialization
from Part II - Russia and the Soviet Union: Themes and Trends
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Edited by
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the ‘West’ wrote its history of the USSR
- Part I Russia and the Soviet Union: The Story through Time
- Part II Russia and the Soviet Union: Themes and Trends
- 14 Economic and demographic change: Russia’s age of economic extremes
- 15 Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development
- 16 Workers and industrialization
- 17 Women and the state
- 18 Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after
- 19 The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Baltics
- 20 Science, technology and modernity
- 21 Culture, 1900–1945
- 22 The politics of culture, 1945–2000
- 23 Comintern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919–1941
- 24 Moscow’s foreign policy, 1945–2000: identities, institutions and interests
- 25 The Soviet Union and the road to communism
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
‘What is the contemporary factory worker in Russia’, asked Mikhail Tugan-Baranovskii towards the end of the nineteenth-century, ‘a peasant living on the land who makes up the deficiencies of his agricultural income by occasional factory work, or a proletarian bound closely to the factory who lives by selling his labour power?’ Tugan-Baranovskii, among Russia’s foremost political economists, seemed unsure how to answer the question. Citing earlier studies showing a decline in seasonal employment among workers in Moscow province, he nevertheless had to acknowledge that ‘the tie of the factory worker to the soil, although waning, is still very strong’, that it was ‘economically necessary and therefore is tenaciously maintained’. Yet, echoing an article of faith among Russian Marxists, he confidently predicted that ‘a complete severance of this tie … is inevitable, and the sooner it takes place the better’.
What was thus on one level an empirical question that lent itself to statistical enquiry into patterns of labour mobility, employment and workers’ ties to the land, on another implied more complex issues. Central to the Marxist paradigm of historical evolution, the formation of an industrial proletariat in Russia was a question that came to the fore during the 1890s because of the unprecedentedly rapid growth of factory industry, associated social dislocations and the political implications of these developments. Retrospectively, it served as the opening chapter in the revolutionary narrative that the Bolsheviks would tell about themselves and the society they were determined to transform.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge History of Russia , pp. 440 - 467Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
References
, Rabochii klass v pervye gody sovetskoi vlasti
(1917–1921 gg.) (Moscow:
Nauka, 1974).
, A Week Like Any Other and Other Stories
(Seattle: Seal
Press, 1990).
and , The Soviet Home Front 1941–1945 : A Social and
Economic History of the USSR in World War II
(London:
Longman, 1991).
, Fuoco sui sabotari! Stachanovismo e organizzazione
industriale in URSS 1934–1938
(Rome: Valerio
Levi, 1988).
, , and , Dvizhenie rabochei sily na promyshlennykh
predpriiatiiakh (Moscow:
Ekonomika, 1965).
, (ed.), The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist
Regime (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press,
1983).
, Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial
Russia (Berkeley:
University of California Press,
1985).
, When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular
Literature, 1861–1917
(Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1985).
, and , ‘Worktime and Industrialization in the U.S.S.R.,
1917–1941’, in (ed.), Worktime and Industrialization: An International
History (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press,
1988).Google Scholar
, Workers, Society, and the Soviet State: Labor and Life in
Moscow, 1918–1929 (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press,
1987).
, Russia’s Workers in Transition: Labor, Management,
and the State under Gorbachev and Yeltsin
(DeKalb: Northern Illinois
University Press, 1999).
, Soviet Economic Facts, 1917–1970
(London:
Macmillan, 1972).
(ed.), Management and Industry in Russia: Formal and
Informal Relations in the Period of Transition
(Aldershot: Edward
Elgar, 1995).
(ed.), et al. (eds.), What About the Workers?: Workers and
the Transition to Capitalism in Russia
(London: Verso,
1993).
, The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics, and Crisis
in Gorbachev’s Russia
(Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1991).
, ‘Labour and Industrialisation in
Russia’, in and (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of
Europe, vol. VII
(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1978), pt. 2.Google Scholar
, The Soviet Economy in Turmoil,
1929–1930 (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press,
1989).
, Between Fields and the City: Women, Work and Family in
Russia, 1861–1914
(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1995).
, ‘The Standard of Living of Soviet Industrial
Workers in the Immediate Postwar Period,
1945–1948’, Europe–Asia
Studies
51 (1999).Google Scholar
, Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of
the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations
(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1992).
, Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialization: The
Formation of Modern Soviet Production Relations, 1928–1941
(Armonk, N.Y.: M. E.
Sharpe, 1986).
, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union,
1921–1934 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
1979).
, Stalin’s Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the
Russian Village after Collectivization (New York
and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1994).
, and , ‘The Soviet Miners’ Strike, July 1989:
Perestroika from Below’, The Carl Beck
Papers in Russian and East European Studies, no. 804
(Pittsburgh: Center for Russian
and East European Studies, 1990).Google Scholar
, Peasant Icons: Representations of Rural People in Late
Nineteenth-Century Russia (New York and
Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1993).
, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s
Russia (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2002).
, Management of the Industrial Firm in the USSR: A Study of
Soviet Economic Planning (New York:
Columbia University Press,
1954).
, ‘The “Lenin Levy” and the Social
Origins of Stalinism: Workers and the Communist Party in Moscow,
1921–1928’, Slavic
Review
48 (1989).Google Scholar
, ‘Speaking Out: Languages of Affirmation and
Dissent’, Kritika: Explorations in
Russian and Eurasian History
I (2000).Google Scholar
, Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow,
1929–1941 (Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press,
1994).
, and , Technocratic Socialism: The Soviet Union in the Advanced
Industrial Era (Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press,
1985).
, Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State
in St. Petersburg, 1890–1914
(Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1993).
, Peasant and Proletarian: The Working Class of Moscow in the
Late Nineteenth Century (New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers University
Press, 1979).
, dir., Piatachok, documentary film
(1987).
and , Professional’naia rabota zhenshchin i
sem’ia (Leningrad:
Nauka, 1971).
, ‘Factory Tales: Narratives of Industrial
Relations in the Transition to
NEP’,Russian Review
55 (1996).Google Scholar
, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization
(Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1995).
, Stalin’s Industrial Revolution
1928–1932 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
1988).
, Dilemmas of Progress in Tsarist Russia: Legal Marxism and
Legal Populism (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press,
1961).
Ministerstvo zemledeliia i gosudarstvennogo imushchestva. Otdel
sel’skoi ekonomiki I sel’sko-khoziaistvennoi
statistiki, Otchety i issledovaniia po kustarnoi
promyshlennosti v Rossii, II vols.
(St Petersburg:
Kirshbaum,
1892–1915).
, Rabochii klass SSSR v gody velikoi otechestvennoi
voiny (Moscow:
Nauka, 1971).
, Rossiiskii statisticheskii ezhegodnik, Statisticheskii
sbornik (Moscow:
Goskomstat, 1998).
, ‘Towards a Post-materialist Rhetoric for Labor
History’, in (ed.), Rethinking Labor History: Essays on Discourse and
Class Analysis (Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press,
1993).Google Scholar
, The Politics of Sociology in the Soviet Union
(Boulder, Colo.: Westview
Press, 1987).
, and , Workers of the Donbass Speak: Survival and Identity in the
New Ukraine, 1989–1992 (Albany,
N.Y.: SUNY Press,
1995).
, ‘Industrial Accidents and Their Prevention in the
Interwar Period’, in and (eds.), The Disabled in the Soviet Union: Past and Present,
Theory and Practice (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press,
1989).Google Scholar
, ‘Production Collectives and Communes and the
“Imperatives” of Soviet Industrialization,
1929–1931’, Slavic
Review
45 (1986).Google Scholar
, Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions,
1918–1929 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
1992).
, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR
1935–1941 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
1988).
, The Russians
(London:
Sphere, 1976).
, Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the
Russian Printing Industry, 1867–1907
(Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1992).
, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life
in the Russian Revolution (Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
1989).
. ‘Petersburg’s First Mass Labor Organization: The
Assembly of Russian Workers and Father Gapon’, 1905 in St.
Petersburg (Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press,
1989).
, Russkaia fabrika v proshlom i nastoiashchem,
2nd edn (St Petersburg: O. N.
Popova, 1900).
, The Making of a Workers’ Revolution: Russian Social
Democracy, 1891–1903
(Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1967).
, Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms
(Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1992).
(ed.),Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia:
Realities, Representations, Reflections
(Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1999).
, Sovetskii gorod v 1921–1925 gg.
(Moscow: Nauka,
1988).
- 1
- Cited by