Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1920-22

by Jonathan Aves

Overview

This work challenges the view, widely held among historians of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War, had little significant content and was largely a sideshow to the huge conflict between the Bolsheviks and the peasants. Based on a wide reading of the contemporary Soviet press, archive sources and first-hand accounts by Bolsheviks and non-Bolsheviks, this work shows how rank and file opposition to the leadership in the Bolshevik-dominated trade unions grew, and how support for non-Bolshevik trade unions and political parties developed fast.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350183582
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/25/2021
Series:	Geographers
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.49(d)

Table of Contents

The intensification of War Communism, January-September 1920; the intensification of industrial unrest, January-September 1920; the false dawn, September 1920-February 1921; the volynka; the aftermath of the volynka.