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Red Petrograd

Revolution in the Factories, 1917 1918

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Paperback | 13 May 1985

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This book explores the impact of the 1917 Revolution on factory life in the Russian capital. It traces the attempts of workers to take control of their working lives from the February Revolution through to June 1918, when the Bolsheviks nationalised industry. Although not primarily concerned with the political developments of the Revolution, the book demonstrates that the sphere of industrial production was a crucial arena of political as well as economic conflict. Having discussed the structure and composition of the factory workforce in Petrograd prior to 1917 and the wages and conditions of workers under the old regime, Dr Smith shows how workers saw the overthrow of the autocracy as a signal to democratise factory life and to improve their lot. After examining the creation and activities of the factory committees, he analyses the relationship of different groups of workers to the new labour movement, and assesses the extent to which it functioned democratically.

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' ... The problem of workers' control in Russia is an essential element of the 1917 revolution, and as such has occupied generations of scholars ... Smith's book, as a local study based on factory level sources (archives, newspapers, union journals) successfully cuts through the view from the top to describe what workers' control was about in Petrograd factories.' Social History ' ... a most welcome addition to the rapidly growing list of major works by British and American historians on the real world of Russian during the tumultuous years of the late-imperial era ... Red Petrograd is a work of meticulous scholarship and provocative argument. it deserves a wide readership.' Economic History Review 'Smith's painstaking analysis is buttressed by an admirably international and interdisciplinary range of reference.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

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The social and literary scene in England
ChaucerG++s continental inheritance: the early poems and Troilus and Criseyde
Old books brought to life in dreams: the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls
Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde
Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the KnightG++s
The Canterbury Tales I
The Canterbury Tales II: Comedy Derek Pearsall; The Canterbury Tales III
The Canterbury Tales IV: Exemplum and fable
Chaucerian realism
Literary structures in Chaucer
ChaucerG++s narrator, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales
ChaucerG++s poetic style
Further reading: a guide to Chaucer studies
Index
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