Open AccessWorkers' Control and Centralization in the Russian Revolution: The Textile Industry of the Central Industrial Region, 1917-1920,
Author(s) -
William B. Husband
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
the carl beck papers in russian and east european studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-839X
pISSN - 0889-275X
DOI - 10.5195/cbp.1985.21
Subject(s) - political radicalism , schema (genetic algorithms) , textile , control (management) , political science , political economy , economic system , business , sociology , economics , law , management , history , computer science , politics , archaeology , machine learning
In this schema, the politicization of workers' control in the second half of 1917 resulted not from elemental radicalism but from the workers' experience both in society and at the workplace. Scholars instrumental In developing this explana~ion have paid special attention to the events of 1917-1918 and to the activities of the highly skilled Petrograd metal-workers,3 although they have by no means ignored the less active and less politically conscious unskilled workers.