Introduction -- The Emerging Working Class Movement -- Revolution and Collective Action, Ciivil War and Personal Survival -- Class Conflict during the new Economic Policy -- Everyday Life under Developing Stalinism -- Catalysts for Dissent: Opposition Groups and Tendencies -- The Stalinist Counterrevolution: Production for Production's Sake -- Conclusion: Revolution versus Counterrevolution
Summary
"Revolution and Counterrevolution is at the center of the ongoing discussion about class identities, the Russian Revolution, and early Soviet industrial relations. Based on exhaustive research in four factory-specific archives, it is unquestionably the most thorough investigation to date on working-class life during the revolutionary era. Its unparalleled immersion in an exceptional variety of sources at the factory level and its direct engagement with the major interpretive questions about the formation of the Stalinist system will force scholars to re-evaluate long-held assumptions about early Soviet society."--Jacket
