Soviet Labor Research Articles

The organisation of power in Soviet labour camps

The organisation of power in Soviet labour camps

Controlling Soviet Labour: Experimental Change from Brehznev to Gorbachev

Controlling Soviet Labour: Experimental Change from Brehznev to Gorbachev

War and Society in Soviet Context: Soviet Labor before, during, and after World War II

<i>War and Society</i> in Soviet Context: Soviet Labor before, during, and after World War II

Controlling Soviet labour: experimental change from Brezhnev to Gorbachev

Controlling Soviet labour: experimental change from Brezhnev to Gorbachev

Controlling Soviet labour: experimental change from Brezhnev to Gorbachev

With a rapidly growing population, deteriorating economic and environmental conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become one of the world's trouble spots. Why then the apparent political quiet? This book argues that this perception is, in itself, a reflection of our ignorance of the region. Instead, argues the author, Islamic traditionalism has not only survived but has flourished and is resurgent in Central Asia. This book includes chapters on marital customs, the care of children, communal decision making, social prestige and values, and the second economy in Central Asia. Poliakov demonstrates the resilience of an un-Soviet way of life which is supported by underground institutions, fostered by unofficial clergy, and protected by the infiltration and subordination of government and party organs.

The Earnings of Soviet Workers: Evidence from the Soviet Interview Project

Micro data gathered by the Soviet Interview Project provide one of the first opp ortunities for Western researchers to investigate the determinants of Soviet earnings. The data show that Soviet labor markets operate in many respects like U.S. labor markets, yet institutional differences remain. The most striking institutional impact is that Soviet workers are rewarded and penalized for political behavior external to the firm. As in the U.S., education and experience are rewarded; men earn more than women. However the Soviet pattern of returns to education is different, returns to experience are lower and occupational segregation of women is less important. Copyright 1988 by MIT Press.

Religious Organizations in Soviet Labor and Social Insurance Legislation: a Documentation, 1929-1985

Religious Organizations in Soviet Labor and Social Insurance Legislation: a Documentation, 1929-1985

Soviet labour and the ethic of communism: full employment and the labour process in the USSR

Soviet labour and the ethic of communism: full employment and the labour process in the USSR

Hiring and Dismissal under Soviet Labour Law

Hiring and Dismissal under Soviet Labour Law

Retention of Employment under Soviet labour Law when Structure of Enterprise is changed

Retention of Employment under Soviet labour Law when Structure of Enterprise is changed

Guarantees of the Legality of Transfer to other Work under Soviet Labour Law

Guarantees of the Legality of Transfer to other Work under Soviet Labour Law

Worker self‐management and the reformist alternative in Soviet labour policy, 1979–85

Worker self‐management and the reformist alternative in Soviet labour policy, 1979–85

Pensioners in the Soviet labour force: The limits of monetary inducements

Pensioners in the Soviet labour force: The limits of monetary inducements

Soviet labour productivity and the failure of the Shchekino experiment

Soviet labour productivity and the failure of the Shchekino experiment

Hauslohner, Peter Austin, Managing the Soviet Labor Market: Politics and Policymaking under Brezhnev, Univ. of Michigan, 1984

Hauslohner, Peter Austin, Managing the Soviet Labor Market: Politics and Policymaking under Brezhnev, Univ. of Michigan, 1984

New Demographic Evidence on Excess Collectivization Deaths: Yet Another Kliukva from Steven Rosefielde?

Readers of this journal who also read Soviet Studies will be aware that several articles have already been written which offer very strong and fundamental criticisms of Steven Rosefielde's earlier writings on the size and the economic and demographic significance of the Soviet labor camps, and on excess mortality in the period between 1929 and 1949.1 These articles remain essentially unanswered. Instead of replying to any of the substantial criticisms that have been made of his writings, Rosefielde continues to cite his now discredited work and attempts to bolster it with additional claims. Although I am very reluctant to enter this field yet again, I feel that his latest contribution cannot go unchallenged. The recent article by Rosefielde on Excess Collectivization Deaths 19291933: New Demographic Evidence, which appeared in this journal in the Spring 1984 issue, contains little that was not included in his earlier article in Soviet Studies on excess mortality in the USSR between 1929 and 1949,2 and the reader is referred to my note on that article for a discussion of the significance of Rosefielde's discovery of Urlanis's estimation of birth rates and Antonov-Ovseenko's revelations about the census of 1937.3 There are, however, two new claims in Rosefielde's recent article that require examination. The first is the significance attached by Rosefielde to an estimate by Urlanis of the 1933 population level. Urlanis's estimate of a 1933 population level of approximately 158 million is significantly lower than the only official Soviet figures that have ever appeared, the estimate of 165.7 million which was included in the official Soviet statistical handbooks for 1934, 1935, and 1936.4 Urlanis's figure is very close to Lorimer's estimate of 158.2 million for 1933.5 The novelty of Rosefielde's use of this figure lies in his claim that Urlanis's estimate is a previously unpublished official population estimate.6 Rosefielde justifies this

The Soviet Labor Force

The Soviet Labor Force

Demographic Determinants of Soviet Educational Policy

Editor's Introduction: The steep decline in the national birthrate in the Soviet Union over roughly the past two decades is well known, the two major causes being the long-range effects of the Soviet mortality rate in World War II and the widespread national phenomenon, in recent years, of small families.1 The birthrate decline has had, and will have, devastating effects on the size of the Soviet labor force. Between 1971 and 1985, the working-age population, made up of people between the ages of 20 and 60, increased by 30 million, but between 1985 and 2000 projections forecast a drop in that figure to 5 million. The decrease in the size of the labor force increment will be made more severe in coming years by the fact that the most numerous generation in Soviet history, made up of those persons born during the late 1920s in the period of relative stability that followed the revolution and civil war, will be retiring between 1986 and 1990. Soviet demographers have concluded that there will be no increase i...

Review Article: Soviet Labor History of the 1920s and the 1930s

Review Article: Soviet Labor History of the 1920s and the 1930s

Toward an Understanding of Soviet Labor: A Review Essay

From the moment that the workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk went on strike and the depth and power of the Solidarity movement in Poland became ob vious, political analysts and other interested observers have been asking: can it happen in the U.S.S.R., will Soviet workers follow the path of their Polish breth ren? That few people had any plausible answers to such questions should not be surprising given the paucity of western scholarship on Soviet labor and workers. Only recently have westerners begun to conduct serious research in this area. Gaps in the literature remain significant, but with the appearance of the three volumes under review the direction of future research has been charted more clearly and the questions to which answers may be found now can be formulated with more preci sion. Much work remains to be done, but some of the studies presented in these three collections provide sound foundation. volume edited by Kahan and Ruble is collection of papers from 1977 conference on Industrial Labor in the USSR held at the Keenan Institute. As Kahan states in the Introduction, the volume represents a first attempt to end the West's benign neglect of Soviet industrial labor . . . This is, in many respects, 'state-of-the-art' book. As such it is quite successful. work is divided into five topical sections. Part I, entitled The Soviet Industrial Labor Force: A Por trait, consists of essays by M. Feshbach on the structure and composition of the