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The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and of the first months of the Soviet power as viewed and experienced 'from below', by the industrial workers of Petrograd, Russia's capital and the centre of its revolutionary movement. Based largely on contemporary scores, it lets the workers speak for themselves, showing them as conscious creative subjects of the revolutionary process, indeed, as the leading force of the revolution. In doing so, it sheds light on the nature and role of the Bolshevik party as an authentic workers' organisation that by the summer of 1017 had become the leading political force among workers.

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Author:   David Mandel
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   145
ISBN:  

9781608460069

ISBN 10:   1608460061
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   04 December 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Maps Glossary Introduction 1 Types of Political Culture in the Industrial Working-Class of Petrograd  The Skilled Workers  Unskilled Workers  The ‘Worker Aristocracy’  The Generational Factor 2 The Social Composition of the Industrial Working Class of Petrograd and its Districts  The Social Composition of Petrograd’s Districts  The Vyborg District  Petergof and Narva Districts  Vasilevskii ostrov  Petrograd District  Moskovskaya zastava  Nevskii-Obukhovskii District  Kolomna District  Second City District  First City District  Rozhdestvenskii District  Okhta and Porokhovskii Districts 3 The Honeymoon Period – From the February to the April Days  The Labour Movement during the War  The February Revolution – The Birth of Dual Power  Census Society  Dual Power in Light of Attitudes before the Revolution  Why Dual Power? 4 The February Revolution in the Factories  The Eight-Hour Day  Wages  The Press Campaign against ‘Worker Egoism’  Worker-Management Relations: ‘Democratisation of Factory Life’  Purge of the Factory Administrations  The Factory Committees 5 From the April to the July Days  The April Days  The First Coalition Government  The Break with Census Society  Underlying Causes of the Shift to Soviet Power 6 The Struggle for Power in the Factories in April–June 7 The July Days  The Workers and the Menshevik-SR Soviet Majority  The July Days  Reaction Unleashed 8 Rethinking the Revolution: Revolutionary Democracy or Proletarian Dictatorship?  Census Society on the Offensive  Final Rejection of ‘Conciliationism’  The Question of ‘Revolutionary Democracy’ 9 From the Kornilov Uprising to the Eve of October  The Kornilov Uprising  The Democratic Conference  Setting Course for Soviet Power 10 Class Struggle in the Factories – September–October  The Factory Committees under Attack  The Struggle for Production – Workers’ Control Checked  From Workers’ Control and towards Workers’ Management  Factory Committees under Pressure ‘from Below’  The Struggle for Production and the Question of State Power  Quiet on the Wage Front 11 On the Eve 12 The October Revolution and the End of ‘Revolutionary Democracy’  Workers’ Attitudes towards the Insurrection  The Question of a ‘Homogeneous Socialist Government’  Unity from Below 13 The Constituent Assembly and the Emergence of a Worker Opposition  The Elections  Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly  The Chernorabochie and the Upsurge of Anarchist Influence  The Lines Harden 14 The October Revolution in the Factories  ‘Active’ or ‘Passive’ Control?  Towards Nationalisation  Management in Nationalised Enterprises 15 Summon Up Every Last Ounce of Strength or Accept Defeat!  Dispersal of Petrograd’s Working Class  The ‘Obscene Peace’  Rise and Failure of the Opposition Conclusion Bibliography Index

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David Mandel, Ph.D. (1977), Columbia University, is a professor of political science and a labour activist. He has authored monographs and articles on politics and labour in revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union, and in post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

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