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Author: Donald Filtzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-08
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521522410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this 1992 book, Dr Filtzer demonstrates how labour policy under Khrushchev was limited to superficial gestures of liberalization and tinkering with incentive schemes. Rather than achieving any lasting effects, the Khrushchev period saw the consolidation of a long-term decline into economic stagnation.
Author: Donald Filtzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-06-09
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521452922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.
Author: Donald A. Filtzer
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Filtzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-07-04
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1139434705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoviet Workers and Late Stalinism is a study of labour and labour policy during the critical period of the Soviet Union's postwar recovery and the last years of Stalin. It is also a detailed social history of the Soviet Union in these years, for non-Russian readers. Using previously inaccessible archival sources, Donald Filtzer describes the tragic hardships faced by workers and their families right after the war; conditions in housing and health care; the special problems of young workers; working conditions within industry; and the tremendous strains which regime policy placed not just on the mass of the population, but on the cohesion and commitment of key institutions within the Stalinist political system, most notably the trade unions and the procuracy. Donald Filtzer's subtle and compelling book will interest all historians of the Soviet Union and of socialism.
Author: Donald Filtzer
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780511120695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this major archive-based study of industry and labour during late Stalinism, Filtzer reveals the central role which control over workers' living standards and behaviour played in the restoration of the Stalinist system after World War II. A subtle, compelling book, of interest to all scholars of Russian history.
Author: Anne White
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-26
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1040184243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDe-Stalinization and the House of Culture (1990) looks at the houses of culture – arts centres which in the Stalinist period functioned as agencies of political socialisation – and the changes in their character and functions since Stalin’s death. This book explores the diminishing control of the Communist Party over public leisure from 1953 to the present day, as one aspect of the de-Stalinization and the dismantling of the totalitarian system. It focuses on the changing nature and functions of the ‘cultural enlightenment’ conducted in houses of culture and similar institutions. Public rejection of the Stalinist attempt to saturate all leisure activities with propaganda and to liquidate many national cultural traditions have gradually forced the party to relinquish much of its leading role in this area. The book compares this process in three different Soviet-type systems, the USSR, Poland and Hungary. It discusses depoliticization of house of culture activities and, especially in the era of perestroika, their eventual repoliticization by unofficial associations concerned with a mix of political, cultural, social and environmental issues. Today the house of culture, a quintessentially Stalinist institution, paradoxically provides a home for an emergent civil society.
Author: Donald Filtzer
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Published: 1986-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780745301891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Don Filtzer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1993-11-11
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 1349130761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of Stalin, to his ill-fated reorganizations of the Communist Party, agriculture, and industry. Besides giving a factual account of the reforms themselves, Filtzer analyses the complex factors behind their failure, focussing not so much on the inadequacies of Khrushchev as a leader, as on the structural obstacles to reform within the Stalinist system itself. As such the Khruschev period is shown to contain instructive historical lessons for our understanding of Mikhail Gorbachev and his own failed perestroika.
Author: Donald A. Filtzer
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Filtzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-05-06
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ISBN-13: 113948575X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first detailed study of the standard of living of ordinary Russians following World War II. It examines urban living conditions under the Stalinist regime with a focus on the key issues of sanitation, access to safe water supplies, personal hygiene and anti-epidemic controls, diet and nutrition, and infant mortality. Comparing five key industrial regions, it shows that living conditions lagged some fifty years behind Western European norms. The book reveals that, despite this, the years preceding Stalin's death saw dramatic improvements in mortality rates thanks to the application of rigorous public health controls and Western medical innovations. While tracing these changes, the book also analyzes the impact that the absence of an adequate urban infrastructure had on people's daily lives and on the relationship between the Stalinist regime and the Russian people, and, finally, how the Soviet experience compared to that of earlier industrializing societies.
