Peasant And Proletarian: The Working Class Of Moscow In The Late Nineteenth Century
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the smoky factories and cramped tenements of late nineteenth-century Moscow, a profound human transformation was underway — one that would reshape the destiny of an empire. Peasant and Proletarian chronicles the dramatic social metamorphosis of Russia's working class, tracing the lives of men and women who crossed the threshold from rural serfdom into the turbulent world of urban industrial labour, caught between two worlds and belonging fully to neither. Robert Eugene Johnson presents a meticulous, ground-level portrait of Moscow's factory workers, drawing on rich archival sources to illuminate the tensions of migration, poverty, communal identity, and the slow forging of a collective class consciousness. Johnson's work stands as a landmark contribution to Russian social history, arguing persuasively that the peasant past was not simply shed upon arrival in the city but remained a living, shaping force within the emerging proletariat. His rigorous yet deeply human analysis illustrates how the persistence of village ties, seasonal rhythms, and communal loyalties created a working class uniquely distinct from its Western European counterparts. Peasant and Proletarian leaves the reader with a haunting question: in a society teetering on the edge of revolution, how much did the past determine the future?
Author: Robert Eugene Johnson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Rutgers University Press
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the smoky factories and cramped tenements of late nineteenth-century Moscow, a profound human transformation was underway — one that would reshape the destiny of an empire. Peasant and Proletarian chronicles the dramatic social metamorphosis of Russia's working class, tracing the lives of men and women who crossed the threshold from rural serfdom into the turbulent world of urban industrial labour, caught between two worlds and belonging fully to neither. Robert Eugene Johnson presents a meticulous, ground-level portrait of Moscow's factory workers, drawing on rich archival sources to illuminate the tensions of migration, poverty, communal identity, and the slow forging of a collective class consciousness. Johnson's work stands as a landmark contribution to Russian social history, arguing persuasively that the peasant past was not simply shed upon arrival in the city but remained a living, shaping force within the emerging proletariat. His rigorous yet deeply human analysis illustrates how the persistence of village ties, seasonal rhythms, and communal loyalties created a working class uniquely distinct from its Western European counterparts. Peasant and Proletarian leaves the reader with a haunting question: in a society teetering on the edge of revolution, how much did the past determine the future?