Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937

Life of an Old Bolshevik
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-24853-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 90, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

In Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik, Barbara Allen recounts the political formation and positions of Russian Communist and trade unionist, Alexander Shlyapnikov. As leader of the Workers’ Opposition (1919–21), Shlyapnikov called for trade unions to realise workers’ mastery over the economy. Despite defeat, he continued to advocate distinct views on the Soviet socialist project that provide a counterpoint to Stalin’s vision. Arrested during the Great Terror, he refused to confess to charges he thought illogical and unsupported by evidence. Unlike the standard historical and literary depiction of the Old Bolshevik, Shlyapnikov contested Stalin's and the NKVD's construct of the ideal party member. Allen conducted extensive research in archives of the Soviet Communist party and secret police.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction

1. From the Old Belief to Socialism
2. Emigration and the Revolutionary Underground
3. Organising Workers in the Revolutionary Year 1917
4. Labour Commissar
5. Defending Soviet Power and Unions in Civil War
6. The Workers’ Opposition and the Trade-Union Debate
7. Early NEP and the Trade Unions
8. Appeal of the 22 to the Communist International
9. Factional Politics in the NEP Era
10. Late NEP, Industrialisation and Renewed Repression
11. Purged from the Party
12. Exile, Arrest and Prison

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara C. Allen, Ph.D. (2001), Indiana University Bloomington, is Associate Professor of History at La Salle University in Philadelphia, USA. She has published articles in Cahiers du Monde Russe, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, and Revolutionary Russia.