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The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia
Contributors:
By (Author) Walter D. Connor
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
322.20947
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
394
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
709g
Description
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
