Politics and Society Under the Bolsheviks

by McDermott, Kevin; Morison, John; World Congress for Central and East European Studies 1995 Warsaw, pol

• ISBN13: 9780312225933
• ISBN10: 0312225938
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Presenting 16 selected papers drawn from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies held in Warsaw in August 1995, addressing an array of topics including new data on the Revolutionary Communist Party from the Saratov and Central Communist Party archives; Stalinism in post-Soviet historical writing; work and leisure among textile workers in Soviet Russia; and activist women in the 1930s. Contributors include international scholars of political science, Russian history, East-West studies, and modern history, as well as Russian researchers.

Author Biography

Bernhard H. Bayerlein is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Cologne and Visiting Professor at the University of Guadalajara and the University of Bourgogne, Dijon Mary Buckley is Reader in Politics at the University of Edinburgh Mary Schaeffer Conroy is Professor of Russian History at the University of Colorado at Denver Irina Davidian is a Research Fellow at the Institute of National Problems in Education, Moscow Mikhail M. Gorinov is a Research Fellow at the Moscow Union of Archives Gabriele Gorzka is Managing Director of the East-West Science Centre and Lecturer in East European History at Kassel University, Germany Peter Huber lectures at the University of Basel John Keep was Lecturer, then Reader, at the University of London and Professor of Russian History at the University of Toronto Robert Maier is a Research Fellow at the Brunswick Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Germany Kevin McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University John Morison is chairman of the School of History at the University of Leeds Alexander Rabinowitch is Professor of Russian History at Indiana University Donald J. Raleigh is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Susan Z. Rupp is Assistant Professor of Russian History at Wake Forest University Viktoriia Tiazhel'nikova is a Research Fellow at the Moscow Union of Archives Aleksandr Vatlin is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Moscow State University and Vice-President of the Russian Association for Soviet Studies

Table of Contents

General Editor's Introduction	vii
Notes on the Contributors	xi
Preface	xv
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations	xvii
Politics and Society under the Bolsheviks: An Introduction	1	(12)
Kevin McDermott
John Morison
The Russian Pharmaceutical Industry in the Late Imperial-Early Soviet Period	13	(24)
Mary Schaeffer Conroy
Early Disenchantment with Bolshevik Rule: New Data from the Archives of the Extraordinary Assembly of Delegates from Petrograd Factories	37	(10)
Alexander Rabinowitch
Out of the Dustbin of History: New Data on the Revolutionary Communist Party from the Saratov and Central Communist Party Archives	47	(15)
Donald J. Raleigh
A House Divided: Civil War Politics in Siberia, 1918	62	(28)
Susan Z. Rupp
Mass Political Consciousness in Soviet Russia in the 1920s	90	(10)
Irina Davidian
Suicide among Representatives of Active Social Groups in the USSR in the 1920s	100	(12)
Viktoriia Tiazhel'nikova
Stalinism in Post-Soviet Historical Writing	112	(28)
John Keep
Work and Leisure among Textile Workers in Soviet Russia: Iaroslavl' in the 1930s	140	(20)
Gabriele Gorzka
Categorising Resistance to Rural Stakhanovism	160	(29)
Mary Buckley
Sovety zhen as a Surrogate Trade Union: Comments on the History of the Movement of Activist Women in the 1930s	189	(10)
Robert Maier
Dynamics of the Mood of Muscovites, 22 June 1941-May 1942	199	(46)
Mikhail M. Gorinov
The Theory and Practice of World Revolution in the Perception of Inter-war Europe: An Attempt at a Historical Generalisation	245	(6)
Aleksandr Vatlin
The Abortive `German October', 1923: New Light on the Revolutionary Plans of the Russian Communist Party, the Comintern and the German Communist Party	251	(12)
Bernhard H. Bayerlein
The Central Apparatus of the Comintern: New Statistical Evidence	263	(22)
Peter Huber
Comintern, Stalinism and Totalitarianism	285	(10)
Kevin McDermott
Index	295