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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hoffmann, David L. (David Lloyd), 1961- Peasant metropolis. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994 (OCoLC)652286770 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David L Hoffmann |
| ISBN: | 0801429420 9780801429422 0801486602 9780801486609 |
| OCLC Number: | 30074208 |
| Description: | xiii, 282 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Moscow and Its Hinterland -- 2. The Process of In-migration -- 3. The Formation of the Urban Workforce -- 4. The Workplace as Contested Space -- 5. The Urban Environment and Living Standards -- 6. Official Culture and Peasant Culture -- 7. Social Identity and Labor Politics -- Appendix I. Workers in Moscow's Economic Sectors -- Appendix II. The 1932 Trade Union Census. |
| Series Title: | Studies of the Harriman Institute. |
| Responsibility: | David L. Hoffmann. |
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Abstract:
Hoffmann focuses on events in Moscow between the launching of the industrialization drive in 1929 and the outbreak of war in 1941. He reconstructs the attempts of Party leaders to reshape the social identity and behavior of the millions of newly urbanized workers, who appeared to offer a broad base of support for the socialist regime. The former peasants, however, had brought with them their own forms of cultural expression, social organization, work habits, and attitudes toward authority. Hoffmann demonstrates that Moscow's new inhabitants established social identities and understandings of the world very different from those prescribed by Soviet authorities. Their refusal to conform to the authorities' model of a loyal proletariat thwarted Party efforts to construct a social and political order consistent with Bolshevik ideology.
The conservative and coercive policies that Party leaders adopted in response, he argues, contributed to the Soviet Union's emergence as an authoritarian welfare state.
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- Working class -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century.
- Urbanization -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century.
- Moscow (Russia) -- Population -- History -- 20th century.
- Rural-urban migration -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century.
- Working classes
- Moscow
- Arbeidsmigratie.
- Travailleurs -- Russie -- Moscou -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Urbanisation -- Russie -- Moscou -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Exode rural -- Russie -- Moscou -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Moscou (Russie) -- Population -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Landflucht
- Moskau
- Paysannerie -- URSS -- Cas, Études de.
- Urbanisation -- Russie -- Moscou (Russie) -- 20e siècle.
- Exode rural -- URSS -- Cas, Études de.
- Classe ouvrière -- Russie -- Moscou (Russie) -- 20e siècle.
- Moscou (Russie) -- Conditions sociales -- 1900-1945 -- Cas, Études de.
