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Article: Hot Coal, Cold Steel: Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations.(Review)
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- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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By Stephen Crowley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 277p. $42.50.
Lisa A. Baglione, St. Joseph's University
Stephen Crowley has written an excellent book on worker activism in Soviet and post-Soviet politics. He examines two sets of puzzles: worker behavior and the attitude of laborers. To solve them, he advances our theoretical understanding of grassroots and postcommunist politics.
Crowley's concern with worker quiescence may appear surprising to the nonspecialist. Did not the coal miners bring down the Soviet government, and have they not continued to strike in the post-Soviet period? While noting the importance of those strikes, Crowley is intrigued ...
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