Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization

The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 1953–1964

By:

Donald Filtzer

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

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This is the first 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.

Release date Australia

October 1st, 1992

Author

Donald Filtzer

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

14 Tables, unspecified

Pages

340

Series

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

Dimensions

152x229x22

ISBN-13

9780521418997

Product ID

1770088

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