Workers Control and Socialist Democracy: The Soviet ExperienceStudy on workers control ad socialist democracy, as illustrated by a case study of the functioning of works councils and Soviets (political power) in the USSR between 1917 and 1921 - discusses the social change context and relationships between factory committees, trade unions and political partys; analyses related Marxist and Leninist political theories (Marxism); considers the relevance for the working class in developed countries. Bibliography and references. |
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Part One Popular Democracy and the Russian Revolution | 11 |
Productivist Evolutionism and the Dialectics of Labour | 245 |
Political Power and Socialist Transformation | 261 |
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activity administrative agricultural All-Russian anarcho-syndicalists argued basis Bolshevik party Bolshevik Revolution bourgeois Brügmann Bukharin Bunyan bureaucratic capitalism capitalist cent Central Council centre civil Collected Commissariat Commissars Commune conception Conference Congress coordination Council of Factory critique culture David Mandel decisions delegates democracy democratic dictatorship discipline division of labour domination dual power effective elected Engels established Executive Committee factory committees favourable February February revolution forms functions ideological industry institutions issue kulaks land latter leaders leadership Left Communists Left SRS Lenin major Marx Marxist mass Mensheviks ment militants Moscow movement October October revolution organization organizational Osinsky owners participation peasantry peasants Petrograd Petrograd Soviet political possible problems proletariat raion regime relatively representatives revolutionary role Russian Revolution skilled workers social socialist society Soviet structures struggle tasks theoretical theory tion trade unions transformation Trotsky urban village wages workers and soldiers workers control Workers Opposition