Research Catalog

Title

The workers' movement in Russia / Simon Clarke, Peter Fairbrother, Vadim Borisov.

Author

Clarke, Simon, 1946-

Publication

Aldershot, UK ; Brookfield, Vt., US : E. Elgar, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Fairbrother, Peter.
• Borisov, Vadim, 1961-

Description

v, 431 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This major new book surveys the development of the new workers' movement in Russia under perestroika to understand how it connected with the workers at shop floor level and the national and local political authorities to whom it addressed its demands, and whose development it sought to influence. Drawing on a unique programme of collaborative research on Russian industrial relations from 1987 to 1995, the authors use a series of case studies to explain the gulf between the thousands of tiny independent groups, often based in a single enterprise or even a single shop, and regional and national organizations without a grassroots base. Extensive interviews with participants, tape and video recordings, as well as substantial documentary material are used in case studies of the 1989 miners' strike in Kuzbass, the Kuzbass regional council of workers' committees, the independent miners' union in Kuzbass, Sotsprof in Moscow and the Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Unions. An extensive introduction puts these studies into context.

Series Statement

Studies of communism in transition

Uniform Title

Studies of communism in transition.

Subject

• Geschichte 1987-1991
• Geschichte 1991-1995
• Geschichte
• Since 1991
• Labor movement > Russia (Federation)
• Labor unions > Russia (Federation)
• Strikes and lockouts > Russia (Federation)
• Working class > Russia (Federation) > Political activity
• Working class > Political activity > Russia (Federation)
• Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-

Genre/Form

• case study.
• reference.
• étude de cas.
• référence bibliographique.
• estudio de casos.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Workers' Movement in Russia -- 2. The 1989 Miners' Strike in Kuzbass -- 3. The Kuzbass Regional Council of Workers' Committees -- 4. The Independent Miners' Union in Kuzbass -- 5. Sotsprof -- 6. The Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Unions -- 7. Is There a Workers' Movement in Russia?

ISBN

1858980631

LCCN

^^^95006826^

OCLC

• 32199192
• SCSB-10874068

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library