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Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization

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

Donald Filtzer author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Oct '92

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

In this 1992 book, Dr Filtzer demonstrates how labour policy under Khrushchev was 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.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.

"...a valuable and worthwhile book." Walter D. Connor, Slavic Review

ISBN: 9780521418997

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm

Weight: 670g

340 pages