You might also like

More about Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 131 loyalty points

Book synopsis

This 1992 book is a comprehensive study of the position of Soviet industrial workers during the Khrushchev period. Dr Filtzer examines the main features of labour policy, shop-floor relations between workers and managers, and the position of women workers. He argues that the main concern of labour policy was to remotivate an industrial population left demoralized by the Stalinist terror. This 'de-Stalinization' had to be carried out without undermining the power and property relations on which the Stalinist system had been built. The author convincingly demonstrates how labour policy was thus limited to superficial gestures of liberalization and tinkering with incentive schemes. Rather than achieving any lasting effects, the Khrushchev period saw the consolidation of a long-term decline into economic stagnation. The labour problems under Khrushchev are shown to be the same as those which confronted Mikhail Gorbachev and his ill-fated perestroika, thus helping to explain the failures of Gorbachev's policies.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization
• Subtitle: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 1953-1964
• Author: Donald Filtzer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• EAN: 9780521522410
• ISBN: 0521522412
• ID: 02033494
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 564 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. August 2002

Trending among others

---

---

---