Workers and intelligentsia in late Imperial Russia: realities, representations, reflections
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In: A centennial book
Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode--a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant--to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations, high politics in St. Petersburg, controversies over the rule of law, and the origins of the Russian labor movement. Zelnik sees this pivotal moment in Russian labor history as the beginning step in the series of conflicts that eventually led to the upheavals of the early twentieth century.
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 851-852
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 24-33
ISSN: 2325-7784
Anna Krylova questions whether the spontaneity-consciousness paradigm, the standard interpretive approach toward Bolshevik thought in the field of Soviet studies, offers an exhaustive account of Bolshevik discourse. To do that she examines the centrality of V I. Lenin'sWhat Is to BeDone?(1902) in Bolshevik thought and points to the 1905 revolution as the formative event in the Bolshevik conception of the worker. Krylova introduces an overlooked Bolshevik notion of "class instinct"(klassovyiinstinkt, klassovoe chut'ie)and argues that the notion of "class instinct" centrally informed the Bolshevik vision of the worker, structuring her article as a dialogue between scholars of Soviet history and their historical subjects. In the conclusion, she suggests the consequences that such a broadened notion of the Bolshevik conception of proletarian identity—beyond the spontaneity-consciousness paradigm—has for interpretations of Bolshevik and Stalinist culture. In "A Paradigm Lost?" his response to Krylova's essay, Reginald E. Zelnik welcomes Krylova's "class instinct" thesis as a fresh enrichment of and supplement to the spontaneity-consciousness paradigm, but, he argues, if we place this language in its early historical context, we cannot avoid the conclusion that with or without the introduction of "instinct," Lenin and the Bolsheviks still had to face the same kind of contradictions in their conceptualization of the role of workers in the revolutionary movement. The revolutionary value of particular consciousness or particular instinct still had to be judged in accordance with an external point of reference, the nature of which remained and remains elusive. Igal Halfin, in his response, "Between Instinct and Mind: The Bolshevik View of the Proletarian Self," argues that the Bolshevik notion of the self indeed deserves careful scrutiny. Focusing on how the official Soviet language characterized the interaction between workers' bodies and workers' souls, Halfin argues that the synthesis of the affective and the cerebral was key to this construction of the New Man in the 1920s and 1930s.
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 24-33
ISSN: 0037-6779
In: The journal of popular culture: the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 1-10
ISSN: 1540-5931
"…Professor Stites, a man whose entire way of being is a constant challenge to established routine."History at Georgetown, Newsletter, 1996
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 57, Heft 2, S. 453-455
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 533-538
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 117-118
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 292-293
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 522-527
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Newsletter, European Labor and Working Class History, Band 2, S. 13-15
ISSN: 2163-2022
In: Newsletter / Study Group on European Labor and Working Class History, Band 2, S. 13-15
In: Soviet studies, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 251-269