Workers against Lenin : labour protest and the Bolshevik dictatorship /
Aves, Jonathan.
Workers against Lenin : labour protest and the Bolshevik dictatorship / Jonathan Aves. - London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, 1996. - 220 p. ; 23 cm. - International library of historical studies ; 6 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index.
The intensification of War Communism, January-September 1920; the intensification of industrial unrest, January-September 1920; the false dawn, September 1920-February 1921; the volynka; the aftermath of the volynka.
This work challenges the view, widely held among historians of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War, had little significant content and was largely a sideshow to the huge conflict between the Bolsheviks and the peasants. Based on a wide reading of the contemporary Soviet press, archive sources and first-hand accounts by Bolsheviks and non-Bolsheviks, this work shows how rank and file opposition to the leadership in the Bolshevik-dominated trade unions grew, and how support for non-Bolshevik trade unions and political parties developed fast.
9781350183582
Strikes and lockouts
Working class--History.--Soviet Union--History.--Soviet Union
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.
335 / AVE
Workers against Lenin : labour protest and the Bolshevik dictatorship / Jonathan Aves. - London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, 1996. - 220 p. ; 23 cm. - International library of historical studies ; 6 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index.
The intensification of War Communism, January-September 1920; the intensification of industrial unrest, January-September 1920; the false dawn, September 1920-February 1921; the volynka; the aftermath of the volynka.
This work challenges the view, widely held among historians of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War, had little significant content and was largely a sideshow to the huge conflict between the Bolsheviks and the peasants. Based on a wide reading of the contemporary Soviet press, archive sources and first-hand accounts by Bolsheviks and non-Bolsheviks, this work shows how rank and file opposition to the leadership in the Bolshevik-dominated trade unions grew, and how support for non-Bolshevik trade unions and political parties developed fast.
9781350183582
Strikes and lockouts
Working class--History.--Soviet Union--History.--Soviet Union
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.
335 / AVE