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Author Mandel, David, 1947- author.

Title The Petrograd workers in the Russian Revolution : February 1917-June 1918 / by David Mandel.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 145
Historical materialism book series ; 145.
Note "Revised and expanded edition of two books published in English by Macmillan in 1983 and 1984, namely: The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime (ISBN: 978-0312603939) and The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power (ISBN: 978-0312603953)."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Contents; List of Tables and Maps; Tables; Map; Glossary; Introduction; Chapter 1. Types of Political Culture in the Industrial Working Class of Petrograd; Skilled Workers; Unskilled Workers; The 'Worker Aristocracy'; The Generational Factor; Chapter 2. The Social Composition of the Industrial Working Class of Petrograd and its Districts; The Social Composition of Petrograd's Districts; The Vyborg District; Petergof and Narva Districts; Vasilevskii ostrov; Petrograd District; Moskovskaya zastava; Nevskii-Obukhovskii District; Kolomna District; Second City District
First City DistrictRozhdestvenskii District; Okhta and Porokhovskii Districts; Chapter 3. The Honeymoon Period -- From the February to the April Days; The Labour Movement during the War; The February Revolution -- The Birth of Dual Power; Attitudes Regarding State Power and the Relationship to Census Society; Dual Power in the Light of Attitudes before the Revolution; Why Dual Power?; Chapter 4. The February Revolution in the Factories; The Eight-Hour Day; Wages; The Press Campaign against 'Worker Egoism'; Worker-Management Relations: 'Democratisation of Factory Life'
Purge of the Factory AdministrationsThe Factory Committees; Chapter 5. From the April to the July Days; The April Days; The First Coalition Government; The Break with Census Society; The Underlying Causes of the Shift to Soviet Power; The Spectre of Counterrevolution; The 18 June Military Offensive; Economic Regulation; Chapter 6. The Struggle for Power in the Factories in April-June; Chapter 7. The July Days; The Workers and the Menshevik-SR Soviet Majority; The July Days; Reaction Unleashed
Chapter 8. Rethinking the Revolution: Revolutionary Democracy or Proletarian Dictatorship?Census Society on the Offensive; Final Rejection of 'Conciliationism'; The Question of 'Revolutionary Democracy'; Chapter 9. From the Kornilov Uprising to the Eve of October; The Kornilov Uprising; The Democratic Conference; Setting Course for Soviet Power; Chapter 10. Class Struggle in the Factories -- September-October; Factory Committees under Attack; The Struggle for Production -- Workers' Control Checked; From Workers' Control towards Workers' Management
Factory Committees under Pressure 'from Below'The Struggle for Production and the Question of State Power; Quiet on the Wage Front; Chapter 11. On the Eve; Chapter 12. The October Revolution and the End of 'Revolutionary Democracy'; Workers' Attitudes towards the Insurrection; The Question of a 'Homogeneous Socialist Government'; Unity from Below; Chapter 13. The Constituent Assembly and the Emergence of a Worker Opposition; The Elections; Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly; The Chernorabochie and the Upsurge of Anarchist Influence; The Lines Harden
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Subject Working class -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- History -- 20th century.
Working class.
Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Strikes and lockouts -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- History -- 20th century.
Strikes and lockouts.
Working class -- Political activity -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- History -- 20th century.
Working class -- Political activity.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mandel, David, 1947- Petrograd workers in the Russian Revolution. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004296992 (DLC) 2017036747
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