Making Workers Soviet

Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Professor of History at Michigan State University. His previous books include Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929. Ronald Grigor Suny is Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books, most recently, The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.

• Archives Cited in TextClass Backwards?: In Search of the Soviet Working Classby Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny1. On the Eve: Life Histories and Identities of Some Revolutionary Workers, 1870–1905by Reginald E. Zelnik2. Vanguard Workers and the Morality of Classby Mark D. Steinberg3. Class Formation in the St. Petersburg Metalworking Industry: From the "Days of Freedom" to the Lena Goldfields Massacreby Heather Hogan4. Workers against Foremen in St. Petersburg, 1905–1917by S. A. Smith5. Donbas Miners in War, Revolution, and Civil Warby Hiroaki Kuromiya6. Labor Relations in Socialist Russia: Class Values and Production Values in the Printers' Union, 1917–1921by Diane P. Koenker7. Languages of Trade or a Language of Class? Work Culture in Russian Cotton Mills in the 1920sby Chris Ward8. The Hidden Class: White-Collar Workers in the Soviet 1920sby Daniel Orlovsky9. From Working Class to Urban Laboring Mass: On Politics and Social Categories in the Formative Years of the Soviet Systemby Gabor T. Rittersporn10. Coercion and Identity: Workers' Lives in Stalin's Showcase Cityby Stephen Kotkin11. Workers against Bosses: The Impact of the Great Purges on Labor-Management Relationsby Sheila Fitzpatrick12. The Iconography of the Worker in Soviet Political Artby Victoria E. Bonnell13. Concluding Remarksby Moshe LewinContributorsIndex

This volume represents a signal event in Russian/Soviet labor history by bringing together samplings of much of the most interesting current work in the field.- Gerald Smith (Russian Review) This memoir can be read as a true confession of love [...] for history and historical craft.(Ab Imperio)