Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930

by Diane P. Koenker

The long decade from the October Revolution to 1930 was the beginning of a great experiment to create a socialist society. Throughout these years, socialist trade unions attempted to transform the Russian worker into a productive and enthusiastic participant in this new order. How did the workers themselves react to these efforts? To what extent were they and their culture transformed into the ideal forms proclaimed in the official ideology?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443083
• ISBN13: 9780801443084
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher