Abstract
At the beginning of the day shift on 21 October 1917 more than 300,000 textile workers from 114 enterprises in Vladimir and Kostroma provinces defiantly refused to report to their shops. Instead, these predominantly semiskilled and unskilled workers of the Ivanovo-Kineshma region responded to an agenda prearranged by workeractivists among them to hear final instructions from newly elected strike committees, sing the “Marseillaise,” and post pickets. By the time this strike ended on 17 November, circumstances in Russia had changed significantly: A new revolutionary government was in office; the national economic crisis had further deepened; the struggle for authority in the factories was intensifying.
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