By Kevin Murphy
ISBN-10: 1931859507
ISBN-13: 9781931859509
Approximately all acceptance of the remarkable democracy the Russian Revolution validated has been destroyed via the legacy of the Stalinist regime that undefined. Kevin Murphy’s writing, in response to exhaustive learn, is the main thorough research up to now on working-class lifestyles through the innovative period, reviving the reminiscence of the remarkable profits for liberty and equality that the 1917 revolution caused.
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Rar Two characteristics clifferentiated tlie l9l7 Russiau Revolution from other workers' rebellions of the twelttieth celìtury. rounced than in RLrssia. The late summer crisis u'as not merely a consequerlce of a string of incompetent decisious on the part of the Provisional Goventmeut. ra2 The second distinguishing featr'rre of I9l7 was that at the movement's decisive juncture, one political party rvith significant influence in the workirlg class pr"rt forrvard an ullcolrìpronrising stance against capitalisrn ancl for a workers' government.
As proof of this ambivalence, Trød. "e3 The metalworkers' uniou reported that in forry factories, including other large plants, all rnembers struck. The Moscow Metalworks, by contrast, was one of two factories in which part of the workforce did not participate in the action. ìe of the fèw plants in which the entire workforce dicl not participate. The Moscow State Conference not only fàilecl to briclge the grovvir-rg class clivide; it dernonstrated that civil war u,as imrninent. rsands of workers to tlÌe streets of Petrograd.
Skobelev promised social reforrns attd cornmitted hirnself to meeting the clernands of workers aud confìscating the profits of industrialists, but by June Skobelev sicled with miue owners to cllrtail rvorkers' demauds, which he described aS "immodet'ate," and appealed to u,orkers to "sacrifice" iu the name of "strettgthening the revolution and honoriug our ultimate ideals'" Under pressure fiom industrialists, fittauciers, and the General Staff, the Rep oløtion ønd Coan terrep o hûion Kerensky labor policy shifted furrher to the right: in August the Mi'istr), of Labor issued directives ro-currail rhe porver ãr tn.
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