Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985-1991

by Donald Filtzer

Book Overview

Soviet Workers and and the Collapse of Perestroika is a comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Filtzer argues that initially perestroika was designed to modernize the Soviet economy while keeping the existing political and property relations of society intact, which required a thoroughgoing restructuring of the labour process within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521056535
• ISBN13: 9780521056533
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"