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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2009
Print publication year:
2002
Online ISBN:
9780511497162

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Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism is a study of labour and labour policy during the critical period of the Soviet Union's postwar recovery and the last years of Stalin. It is also a detailed social history of the Soviet Union in these years, for non-Russian readers. Using previously inaccessible archival sources, Donald Filtzer describes the tragic hardships faced by workers and their families right after the war; conditions in housing and health care; the special problems of young workers; working conditions within industry; and the tremendous strains which regime policy placed not just on the mass of the population, but on the cohesion and commitment of key institutions within the Stalinist political system, most notably the trade unions and the procuracy. Donald Filtzer's subtle and compelling book will interest all historians of the Soviet Union and of socialism.

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‘… a valuable contribution to Soviet social history. It is enlivened by some poignant descriptive material and is informed by a profound sympathy with ordinary Soviet citizens who found that the fruits of victory in the ‘great patriotic war’ tasted extremely bitter.'

Source: The Economic History Review

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Contents

Bibliography
FACTORY NEWSPAPERS
Baltiets (Bal′tiiskii shipyard, Leningrad)
Egorovets (Egorov engineering works, Leningrad)
Elektrosila (Elektrosila electrical engineering works, Leningrad)
Golos Dzerzhintsa (Dzerzhinskii cotton textile factory, Ivanovo)
Kabel′shchik (Sevkabel′, Leningrad)
Kirovets (Kirov engineering works, Leningrad)
Krasnoe znamya (Krasnoe znamya engineering works, Leningrad)
Krasnyi treugol′nik (Krasnyi treugol′nik rubber goods factory, Leningrad)
Martiets (Admiralteiskii shipyard, Leningrad)
Stalinets (Avtotraktorodetal′ factory, Kuibyshev)
Stalinets (Rostov agricultural machinery factory, Rostsel′mash, Rostov-on-Don)
Stalingradskii traktorstroi (Construction organization of the Stalingrad tractor factory, Stalingrad)
Stalinskaya vakhta (Linotip printing and publishing equipment factory, Leningrad)
Stankostroitel′ (Stankostroitel′ machine-tool factory, Ryazan′)
Stankostroitel′ (Stankostroitel′ machine-tool factory, Sterlitamak)
Uralmash (Urals engineering works, Uralmashzavod, Sverdlovsk)
Za sovetskuyu malolitrazhku (Passenger car works, Moscow)
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