| Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962 Contributor(s): Baron, Samuel H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804752311 ISBN-13: 9780804752312 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: "Exciting to read, this excellent book reconstructs a little-known yet very important and dramatic incident in the Soviet Union during the Khruschev era. There is simply no other work like it, not even in Russian. It is a major contribution to the emergin historiography of the period." --Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Chicago "Baron's book provides substantial new insights into events that were shrouded in secrecy until the final days of the Soviet Union. . . . It is the first in-depth, English-language analysis of the events of 'Bloody Saturday.' . . . Baron's contributions to understanding the flaws of the Soviet system of government are both novel and significant. Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union is accessible for college level readers and would be valuable to those interested in empirical history and an understanding of the basis of Soviet labor policy in the post-Stalin era."--History |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.892 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.58" W x 8.94" (0.93 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the tight lid of secrecy placed on the entire episode by the Soviets begin slowly to lift. |