Workers Against Lenin - Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1920-22

Challenges the view of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War. The book claims that this view is largely a sideshow to the huge conflict between the Bolsheviks and the peasants. Zusammenfassung This work challenges the view! widely held among historians of the Bolshevik revolution! that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War! had little significant content and was largely a sideshow to the huge conflict between the Bolsheviks and the peasants. Based on a wide reading of the contemporary Soviet press! archive sources and first-hand accounts by Bolsheviks and non-Bolsheviks! this work shows how rank and file opposition to the leadership in the Bolshevik-dominated trade unions grew! and how support for non-Bolshevik trade unions and political parties developed fast. Inhaltsverzeichnis The intensification of War Communism! January-September 1920; the intensification of industrial unrest! January-September 1920; the false dawn! September 1920-February 1921; the volynka; the aftermath of the volynka.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Aves, Aves Jonathan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781350183582
• ISBN: 978-1-350-18358-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Sociology: work & labour, Marxism & Communism, Sociology: work and labour, Revolutionary groups and movements, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions