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Book SynopsisIn this major reassessment of Russian labor 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 nineteenth century through Russia's First Rev
Trade ReviewWinner of the 1993 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction3Pt. 1The Working-Class Milieu131The Industrial Boom: 1870-1900152The Labor Force373Working-Class Daily Life67Pt. 2The Labor and Revolutionary Movements954Late-Nineteenth-Century Unrest975The Rise of Political Radicalism1316The Revolutionary Surge: 1903 to October 19051657The Reactionary Backlash: 1903 to October 19051988The Bid for Power: December 1905227Conclusion255Selected Bibliography269Index283
