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The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia
By (Author) Walter D. Connor
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
322.20947
Paperback
394
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
539g
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