Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1920-22

by Jonathan Aves

This work challenges the view, widely held among historians of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War, had little significant content and was largely a sideshow to the huge conflict between the Bolsheviks and the peasants. Based on a wide reading of the contemporary Soviet press, archive sources and first-hand accounts by Bolsheviks and non-Bolsheviks,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135018358X
• ISBN13: 9781350183582
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"