Dream Deferred

The Editors: Donald Filtzer (1948) is Professor of Russian History at the University of East London, United Kingdom.Wendy Z. Goldman (1956) is Professor in the Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.Gijs Kessler (1969) is Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Simon Pirani (1957) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies at Oxford University, United Kingdom.

• Contents: Nikolai V. Mikhailov: Non-Party Workers’ Organizations in St Petersburg and the Provinces before and during the First Russian Revolution – Christine Ruane: The 1906 Moscow Garment Workers’ Strike – Sarah Badcock: Politics, Parties, and Power: Sormovo Workers in 1917 – Simon Pirani: Mass Mobilization versus Participatory Democracy: Moscow Workers and the Bolshevik Expropriation of Political Power – Barbara Allen: Transforming Factions into Blocs: Alexander Shliapnikov, Sergei Medvedev, and the CCC Investigation of the the CCC Investigation of the «Baku Affair» in 1926 – Aleksei Gusev: The «Bolshevik Leninist» Opposition and the Working Class, 1928-1929 – Kevin Murphy: Strikes during the Early Soviet Period, 1922 to 1932: From Working-Class Militancy to Working-Class Passivity? – Wendy Z. Goldman: Terror in the Factories – Lynne Viola: Taiga Conditions: Kulak Special Settlers, Commandants, and Soviet Industry – Jean Lévesque: Foremen in the Field: Collective Farm Chairmen and the Fate of Labour Discipline after Collectivization, 1932-1953 – Diane P. Koenker: Soviet Worker Leisure Travel in the 1930s – Barbara Alpern Engel: «Earning My Own Crust of Bread»: Labor in the Lives of Discontented Wives in Late Imperial Russia – Gijs Kessler: A Population under Pressure: Household Responses to Demographic and Economic Shock in the Interwar Soviet Union – Donald Filtzer: The 1947 Food Crisis and its Aftermath: Worker and Peasant Consumption in Non-Famine Regions of the RSFSR – Andrei Markevich: Finding Additional Income: Subsidiary Agriculture in Soviet Urban Households, 1941-1964 – Sergey A. Afontsev: The Choice of Income-Earning Activities: Russian Urban Households and the Challenges of Transition.

« (...) ce livre, où chacun puisera en fonction de ses centres d'intérêts, mérite l'appréciation la plus élogieuse : il restera comme un ouvrage de référence, dû aux meilleurs spécialistes du domaine. Écrit par des chercheurs de cinq pays, il fait le point sur l'état de notre connaissance du monde du travail russe et soviétique. C'est donc un guide précieux qui offre une très riche information. » (Jean-Paul Depretto, Cahiers du Monde Russe)«'A Dream Deferred' is a very good introduction to recent Russian and Soviet labour historiography. (...) The volume presents an excellent sample of recent social and labour historiography in a form accessible to students and interested non-specialists as well as to scholars.» (Michael C. Hickey, Revolutionary Russia)