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Overview
Drawing on such diverse sources as propaganda art, the trade union press, workers' memoirs, and materials in recently opened Soviet archives, this is the first book to examine the shifting identity of the "working class" in late tsarist and early Soviet societies. New essays by fifteen leading historians show how Russian workers responded to attempts to make them Soviet.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"This volume represents a signal event in Russian/Soviet labor history by bringing together samplings of much of the most interesting current work in the field."-Gerald Smith, Russian Review (September 1998)
"A very fine collection that explores intriguing aspects of the 'making of the Soviet working class.' Taken together, the essays define the contours of future work in Russian and Soviet labor history. This will be a benchmark volume."-William J. Chase, University of Pittsburgh