In this reassessment of Russian labour history, Charters Wynn shows that in Imperial Russia's primary steel and mining region the same class that posed a powerful challenge to the Tsarist government also undermined the revolutionary movement with its pogromist violence. From the last decades of the 19th century through Russia's First Revolution in 1905, the revolutionary parties succeeded in inciting the predominantly young, male "peasant-workers" of the Donbass-Dnepr Bend region to take part in general strikes, rallies and ...
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In this reassessment of Russian labour history, Charters Wynn shows that in Imperial Russia's primary steel and mining region the same class that posed a powerful challenge to the Tsarist government also undermined the revolutionary movement with its pogromist violence. From the last decades of the 19th century through Russia's First Revolution in 1905, the revolutionary parties succeeded in inciting the predominantly young, male "peasant-workers" of the Donbass-Dnepr Bend region to take part in general strikes, rallies and armed confrontation with troops. However, the parties were never able to control the unrest their agitation helped to unleash. Wynn provides evidence that the workers also committed devastating pogromist attacks on Jews, radical students and artisans.
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Fine in Near fine jacket. First printing, 1992, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 289pp., illustrated in b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with spot of soil to front panel, otherwise fine in protective mylar wrap.
