Beschreibung:
Alice Pate is Chair and Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, USA. She is the author of Workers and Unity (2015) and a co-editor of New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Russia, 1840-1918 (2002).
Examining the history of workers in Russia from the time of Peter the Great to the present, this book analyzes Russia's labour history in the global context of a modernizing world, ensuring that the history of workers in Russia can be understood in relation to workers in the rest of Europe and beyond. Alice Pate explains the social and political forces that shaped workers' lives and impacted the development of modern Russia and the Soviet Union, addressing major historical themes, such as urbanization, modernization, state and society, globalization as well as state formation, along the way.