Workers of the Donbass Speak

Lewis H. Sigelbaum is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He has written and co-edited six books on Russian and Soviet labor history. Daniel J. Walkowitz is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-1884, and The Mystification of the Middle Class: Gender and Social Identity among Social Workers, 1900-1980. He has also produced several video documentaries including "Perestroika from Below."

• Acknowledgments Maps Chronology The Kuibyshev Raion A Note on the Organizational Structure of Ex-Soviet Mines Introduction Part One Worker Stories: The Older Generation, 1989Introduction to Part One 1. Narsis Melikian, Retired Mining Engineer 2. Ivan and Gennady Kushch, a Miner's Dynasty 3. Marfa Ivanovna Limonets, Retired Mineworker and Her Daughter, Olga Nikolaevna Bondarenko 4. Viktor Mikhailovich Ignatov, Retired Steelworker 5. Evgenia Feodorovna Zilova, Retired Steelworks Employee 6. Vladimir Feodorovich Pogorelov, Miner-electrician 7. Feodor Skripai, Retired Miner Part Two Labor Politics, 1989-1992Introduction to Part Two Survival Strategies: The Miners of Donetsk in the Post-Soviet Era Stephen F. Crowley and Lewis H. SiegelbaumI. August 1989 8. Valery Vladimirovich Samofalov, Chair, Strike Committee, Kuibyshev Mine, August 2, 1989 9. Kuibyshev Mine Trade Union Conference, August 5, 1989 II. May 1991 10. Discussion—Kuibyshev Mine Leaders Gennady Kushch, Chair, Council of Labor Collectives, Kuibyshev MineValery Samofalov, Vice-Chair, Council of Labor Collectives, Kuibyshev MineGila Tengizovich Alizaev, Director, Kuibyshev Mine11. Discussion—City Strike Committee: Nikolai Volynko, Member,Yuri Leonidovich Makarov, Co-Chair,Mikhail Krylov, Co-ChairIII. June-July 1992 12. Discussion—SNOP Delegates Yuri Timofeevich Pivovarov, Chair, Donetsk Regional Federation of "Solidarity" Trade Unions of UkraineOlga Pavlovna Samofalova, Chair, Independent Trade Union of Textile Workers of Donetsk Cotton MillSergei Gurovich Ignatov, Chair, Trade Union of Police and Judicial PersonnelSergei Ivanovich Sobchakov, Chair, Union of Aviation Controllers in Donetsk13. Evgenii Grigorevich Belous, Chair, Kuibyshev Mine Trade Union Committee 14. Giia Alizaev, Director, Kuibyshev Mine 15. Valery Samofalov, Miner, Kuibyshev Mine 16. Yuri Makarov, Co-Chair, Donetsk City Strike Committee 17. Mikhail Krylov, Co-Chair, Donetsk City Strike Committee Part Three Survival and Identity, 1992Introduction to Part Three "Normal Life": The Crisis of Identity Among Donetsk's Miners Daniel J. Walkowitz18. The Kushch Family Gennady, Driver, Kuibyshev Mine Nadezhda, Housing Administrator, Kuibyshev MineMarina, Nadezhda's DaughterLiudmilla (Gennady's ex-wife), Clerk, State Hardware StoreIvan, Mechanic at Kuibyshev Mine and Pensioner19. The Samofalov Family Valery, Miner, Kuibyshev Mine Tatiana, Laboratory Assistant, Chemical Reactive Plant Svetlana Zaguliaova, Their Married Daughter20. The Mezhinskii Family Vera Aleksandrovna, Packer, Chemical Reactive PlantAleksandr, Miner, October Mine21. The Zadorozhnyi Family Viktor Andreevich, Accountant, Doka-TV; Former Komsomol Organizer, October MineIrina, Bank Economist on Maternity Leave22. Vladislav Nikolskii, A New Entrepreneur, Director, Intertour Travel Agency 23. The Varevoda Family: Intellectual Workers Yuri, Mining EngineerSvetlana, Physicist at the City PlanetariumViktor Yatsenko, Their Son-in-law, A PhysicistAleksandr Yatsenko, Viktor's Father, A ProfessorVera, Svetlana's Mother, A PensionerIndex

"This book is a valuable contribution to the field of post-Soviet studies; it addresses a number of crucial issues in an engaging and informative way. Most importantly, it allows Western readers to hear Russian and Ukrainian miners and their families speak in their own words. The interviews included here bring to life people of the former Soviet Union as they struggle to cope with the economic, political, and societal disintegration taking place around them. Particularly today, when scholarship and media coverage alike pay nothing more than lip-service to the 'hardships of economic transition,' it is important that Western audiences understand the hopes and insecurities felt by people of the former Soviet Union." — David Hoffmann, Cornell University