SOVIET WORKERS AND DE-STALINIZATION by Donald A. Filtzer ( 9780521418997 )

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SOVIET WORKERS AND DE-STALINIZATION
THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE MODERN SYSTEM OF SOVIET PRODUCTION RELATIONS 1953-1964

By:

Donald A. Filtzer

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0521418992

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9780521418997

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 October, 1992

Series:

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies 87

Pages:

340

Description:

This 1992 book is a comprehensive study of the position of Soviet industrial workers during the Khrushchev years.

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.

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