Soviet workers and Stalinist industrialization : the formation of modern Soviet production relations, 1928-1941

Donald Filtzer was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1948: In 1976 he received a Ph.D. from the University ofGlasgow for his work oh the Left Opposition theorist, E.A. Preobrazhensky. He later edited a collection of Preobrazhensky’s writings under the title of The Crisis ofSovietIndustrialization (M.E. Sharpe, White Plains, 1979). He also translated and edited 1.1. Rubins’s A History ofEconomic Thought (Ink Links, London, 1979). Since 1978 he has worked as Research Fellow and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Preface and Acknowledgements ☆ 1 Introduction ☆ 5 Part I 1. The New Economic Policy and the defeat of the October Revolution ☆ 13 2. Forced industrialization and the breakdown of the labour market ☆ 34 3. The breakdown of resistance ☆ 68 4. Conclusion to Part I: the contradictions of Stalinist industrialization ☆ 116 Part II 5. Labour, management and the regime, 1933-1941 ☆ 125 6. Control over the labour process ☆ 152 7. Stakhanovism ☆ 179 8. Managerial concessions over wages and norms ☆ 208 9. Responses to the draconian labour laws of December 1938 and June 1940 ☆ 233 10. Conclusion: Stalinist industrialization and the origins of modern Soviet production relations ñ 254 Notes ☆ 272 Bibliography ☆ 316 List of terms and abbreviations ☆ 323 Index of industrial, mining, construction, and transport enterprises ☆ 325 General Index ☆ 329 Donald Filtzer. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [316]-322) And Indexes.