LEADER 02587nam a2200325 i 4500001 99127176729106421 005 20230623144712.0 006 m o d 007 cr ||||||||||| 008 230623s2021 abc ob 001 0 eng d 024 7 10.15215/aupress/9781771992459.01 |2doi 035 (CKB)5400000000041894 035 (NjHacI)995400000000041894 035 (EXLCZ)995400000000041894 040 NjHacI |beng |erda |cNjHacl 043 e-ur--- 050 4 HD4875.S59 |b.K455 2021 082 04 331.117320947 |223 100 1 Kellogg, Paul, |eauthor. 245 10 "Truth Behind Bars" : |bReflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution / |cPaul Kellogg. 246 “Truth Behind Bars” 246 “Truth Behind Bars” 264 1 Edmonton : |bAthabasca University Press, |c2021. 300 1 online resource (440 pages) 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 588 Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. 520 Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger strike by socialist prisoners, victims of Joseph Stalin's repressive regime, resulted in mass executions. In 1953, a strike by forced labourers sounded the death knell for the Stalinist forced labour system. And finally, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of strikes by new, independent miners' unions were central to overturning the Stalinist system. Paul Kellogg uses the story of Vorkuta as a frame with which to re-assess the Russian Revolution. In particular, he turns to the contributions of Iulii Martov, a contemporary of Lenin, and his analysis of the central role played in the revolution by a temporary class of peasants-in-uniform. Kellogg explores the persistence and creativity of workers' resistance in even the darkest hours of authoritarian repression and offers new perspectives on the failure of democratic governance after the Russian Revolution. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 One Long Night, 1936-38 -- Striking Against the Gulag, 1947-53 -- The Vengeance of History, 1989-91 -- The Peasant-in-Uniform -- Urban Intellectuals and the Agrarian Question -- Poland and Georgia: the Export of Revolution -- Germany and Hungary: the United Front -- Trotsky on Stalinism: The Surplus and the Machine -- A Movement's Dirty Linen -- Lenin and Leninism: Moving Beyond Reverence -- Intellectuals and the Working Class. 650 0 Forced labor |zSoviet Union. 776 |z1-77199-247-6 906 BOOK