Chamberlin was the Moscow correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor from 1922-1932. By taking advantage of his presence there, he produced two remarkable volumes on the Russian Revolution. It took him twelve years of study and research. The first volume is a narrative account of daily events in Russia from 1917 to 1921. It begins with the downfall of the Czar in March 1917, and ends with the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in March 1921. The volume is fairly well documented. Newspapers, historical magazines, memoirs, and archival materials are utilized. Chamberlin's personal encounters with some of the leading actors in the historical drama have also given him an added advantage.
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, founded at Stanford University in 1919 by the late President Herbert Hoover, is a center for advanced study and research on public and in ternational affairs in the twentieth century. The views expressed in its publications are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily re flect the views of the Hoover Institution. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE ROLE OF LABOR rn THE SOVIET STATE. . 1 A. BOLSHEVIK BLUEPRINT OF 'vVoRKERS' CONTROL OF INDUSTRY. The statute of workers' control. The scope of workers' control. The application of workers' control. The trade unions try to set limits to workers' control. Lenin reaffirms workers' control. B. EARLY MISGIVINGS ABOUT WORKERS' CONTROL. Disruption of the railway system. Decline in labor productivity. Deterioration of the workers' standard of living. How workers' control operated. C. EFFECT OF NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY ON WORKERS' CON TROL. Assertion of the principle of control from national levels. Subordination of councils of workers' control to trade unions. The Social Democrats (Internationalists) oppose subordination of coun cils of workers' control. D. TRADE UNION MANAGEMENT PROVES AN ILLUSION. Lenin on the transition from workers' control to workers' management of industry. Workers' participation in industrial management. Lenin's negative assessment of the Russian proletarian masses. Subordina tion of trade unions to the Soviet state. Party domination of the trade unions. Dispersal of the Union of State Employees. Sudden change in the Bolsheviks' attitude toward workers' management of industry. Lenin on workers' management of industry. The Eighth Party Congress on trade-union management of industry. CHAPTER II. THE DRIFT TOWARD LABOR COMPULSION. . 52 A. COMPULSORY LABOR IMPOSED ON THE BOURGEOISIE. Trotsky's proposals for handling the bourgeoisie. Drafting the bourgeoisie for forced labor. Types of the "bourgeoisie" conscripted for forced labor. General principles of compulsory labor. Regulations for the application of compulsory labor to the bourgeoisie. B. BEGINNINGS OF COERCION OF THE WoRKING CLASS. A plea to establish an economic dictatorship. Lockout in the repair shops of the Aleksandrovsky railroad. "Freezing" mine workers to their jobs. The establishment of forced-labor camps. Regulations con cerning forced-labor camps. Labor books for workers. C. DEPLETION OF THE RANKS OF LABOR. The shrinkage of the industrial labor force. How the population is fed. Bread rations of the Moscow population at the end of 1919. The illegal markets and the curtailment of the labor force. Influx of workers into the Soviet bureaucracy. D. DECLINE OF LABOR PRODUCTIVITY. Problems of labor produc tivity. The establishment of workers' disciplinary courts. lX X CONTENTS CHAPTER III. MILITARIZATION OF LABOR: THE DE CISION AND !Ts INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK... 89 A. THE PRINCIPLES OF LABOR COMPULSION. Trotsky's exposi tion of the principles of compulsory labor. The manpower crisis and how to solve it. Trotsky's blueprint for Soviet industria...
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