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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      October 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511628702
      9780521418997
      9780521522410
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628702
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 340 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.564kg, 340 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
      Series:
      Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (87)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
    Series:
    Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (87)
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    This 1992 book is a comprehensive study of the position of Soviet industrial workers during the Khrushchev period. Dr Filtzer examines the main features of labour policy, shop-floor relations between workers and managers, and the position of women workers. He argues that the main concern of labour policy was to remotivate an industrial population left demoralized by the Stalinist terror. This 'de-Stalinization' had to be carried out without undermining the power and property relations on which the Stalinist system had been built. The author convincingly demonstrates how labour policy was thus limited to superficial gestures of liberalization and tinkering with incentive schemes. Rather than achieving any lasting effects, the Khrushchev period saw the consolidation of a long-term decline into economic stagnation. The labour problems under Khrushchev are shown to be the same as those which confronted Mikhail Gorbachev and his ill-fated perestroika, thus helping to explain the failures of Gorbachev's policies.

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    "...a valuable and worthwhile book." Walter D. Connor, Slavic Review

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