Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-333) and index.
Contents
Socialism and the Russian working class -- 1: Civil War and the evolution of the one-party trade union, 1918-1922 -- The printing industry in the era of revolutionary transformations -- The struggle for a Communist Printers Union, 1918-1922 -- The Civil War and working-class culture -- 2: The "golden years" of the new economic policy, 1922-1927 -- A new form of labor relations -- The working people's democracy -- New cultures of class -- 3: The twisting road to the first five-year plan, 1927-1930 -- The industry without a plan: unemployment and conflict in the first five-year plan -- The twilight of the Socialist trade union -- Class formation or the unmaking of the working class? -- Soviet workers and the Socialist project: epilogue and conclusion.
Summary
'Republic of labor' illuminates the lived experience of Russia's printers, workers who differed from their comrades because of their skill and higher wages, but who shared the same challenges of economic hardship and dangerous conditions.
