Peasant or Proletarian? Militant Pskov Workers in St. Petersburg, 1913

Brym, Robert J.; Economakis, Evel G.

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“…Elsewhere we have demonstrated that proletarianization variables were significantly correlated with labor militance in St. Petersburg (Brym and Economakis 1994 Kruze 1961, pp. 255, 261;Tomchevich 1972, p. 12).…”

Section: Proletarianization Militance and Marriagementioning

confidence: 88%

Marriage and Militance in a Working Class District of St. Petersburg, 1896-1913

Economakis¹,

Brym

1995

Journal of Family History

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Sharp controversy still exists over whether the Russian proletariat on the eve of the 1917 revolution comprised an urbanized, class-conscious community or a mass of semi-urbanized peasants rebelling against an alien industrial regime. We use published and archival data (church marriage records, county council statistics, and St. Petersburg worker blacklists) to argue against the "peasant"school. Specifically, we demonstrate the existence of an urban, working class community by analyzing the association among (1) frequency of urban marriage with spouses coming from different geographical origins, (2) industrial militance, and (3) rural socioeconomic conditions that turned peasants into proletarians.How urbanized were St. Petersburg's industrial workers by the time the guns announced the outbreak of World War I? Historical opinion remains divided, with controversy centering on the militant strike wave of 1912-1914. Soviet historians and some western scholars maintain that striking workers were class-conscious

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Section: Proletarianization Militance and Marriagementioning

confidence: 88%

Marriage and Militance in a Working Class District of St. Petersburg, 1896-1913

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Brym

1995

Journal of Family History

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“…Elsewhere we have demonstrated that proletarianization variables were significantly correlated with labor militance in St. Petersburg (Brym and Economakis 1994). Worker blacklists (chernye spiski) were compiled by the St. Petersburg Society of Factory and Mill Owners during the strike wave of 1913.…”

Section: Proletarianization Militance and Marriagementioning

confidence: 94%

“…In contrast, many Western analysts hold that the strikers were &dquo;gray&dquo; workers with strong ties to the land and to their villages: semi-urbanized peasants rebelling against life under an alien and hostile industrial regime (Brym and Economakis 1994). From their point of view, the strikes expressed the demands of a flourishing working-class community.…”

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Marriage and Militance in a Working Class District of St. Petersburg, 1896-1913

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1995

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The Ethic of Self-Reliance and the Spirit of Capitalism in Russia

Brym

1996

International Sociology

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Oleg Kharkhordin (1994) argues that most Russian industrialists adhere to a corporate ethic of mutual aid that facilitates the creation of financial and industrial conglomerates united in a national market. He also emphasizes that sustained capitalist development requires the rise of a new individualistic ethic of samostoyatel'nost', or self-reliance, which he finds growing among Russian businesspeople. Contrary to Kharkhordin's assertions, I demonstrate the persistence of collectivist sentiment among state enterprise directors on the basis of a 1994 Moscow-region survey. I then use survey data to show that in the adult Russian population as a whole, self-reliance was a much less popular norm in 1995 than it was in 1989. Finally, I analyse a 1995 survey of Russian adults in order to demonstrate that entrepreneurial Russians are not especially inclined to espouse the samostoyatel'nost' ethic. I conclude that certain social-structural continuities between the Soviet and post-Soviet periods partly account for the persistent weakness of the samostoyatel'nost' ethic among most Russians, including entrepreneurs. An ethic of self-reliance may be necessary for sustained capitalist growth in Russia, as Kharkhordin suggests, but so is a transformation of power relations more massive than has taken place to date.

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Peasant or Proletarian? Militant Pskov Workers in St. Petersburg, 1913

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Marriage and Militance in a Working Class District of St. Petersburg, 1896-1913

Marriage and Militance in a Working Class District of St. Petersburg, 1896-1913

Marriage and Militance in a Working Class District of St. Petersburg, 1896-1913

The Ethic of Self-Reliance and the Spirit of Capitalism in Russia

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