The Accidental Proletariat : Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia.

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Author / Creator:	Connor, Walter D.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (393 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library Princeton legacy library.
Subject:	Labor -- Soviet Union. Working class -- Political activity -- Soviet Union. Labor. Working class -- Political activity. Soviet Union. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275520

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ISBN:	9781400862405 140086240X
Notes:	Cover; Contents. Print version record.
Summary:	Walter Connor shows how the seven decades since Stalin launched the First Five Year plan have changed Soviet workers from a disorganized mass of unskilled ex-peasants into something very much like a class--not the working class intended by Lenin and Stalin but a new and powerful ""accidental proletariat, "" produced by forces partly beyond the state's control. Does this new ""proletariat"" threaten glasnost and perestroika? To address that question, Connor examines the growth of the new ""class"" and its role in the crisis-ridden politics of Gorbachev's USSR. In this book, as in his earlier.
Other form:	Print version: Connor, Walter D. Accidental Proletariat : Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014

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