Red Petrograd Revolution in the Factories, 1917-1918 - Softcover

Smith, S. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608468631 ISBN 13: 9781608468638

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2017

Synopsis

A deeply engaging study, unmatched in its depth, of factory life in Petrograd over the course of Russia's revolutionary year. When the Russian autocracy fell in February 1917, workers across Petrograd took it as a signal to begin democratising every aspect of their lives, including their working lives. In this classic study, S.A. Smith vividly captures the creation, development, and expansion of the factory councils across the city.

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Review:

Justly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work.”
China Miéville

"The classic study of the role and behavior of Petrograd factory workers during the Great Russian Revolution. Based on thorough study of the relevant sources, Smith presents a nuanced, compelling sense of the ultimately decisive dialectical relationship between the powerful revolution from below and the triumph of Bolshevism in Red Petrograd.”
Alexander Rabinowitch, author, The Bolsheviks Come to Power


“Justly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work.”
―China Miéville

"The classic study of the role and behavior of Petrograd factory workers during the Great Russian Revolution. Based on thorough study of the relevant sources, Smith presents a nuanced, compelling sense of the ultimately decisive dialectical relationship between the powerful revolution from below and the triumph of Bolshevism in Red Petrograd.”
―Alexander Rabinowitch, author, The Bolsheviks Come to Power

Book Description:

This book explores the impact of the 1917 Revolution on factory life in the Russian capital. It traces the attempts of workers to take control of their working lives from the February Revolution through to June 1918, when the Bolsheviks nationalised industry. The book demonstrates that the sphere of industrial production was a crucial arena of political as well as economic conflict.

About this edition

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1608468631
• ISBN 13: 9781608468638
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360