State and urban workers' movement in recent historiography on the post-revolutionary Soviet period: a proposal for analysis.
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Abstract
The present work investigates the recent historiographical production on the logic of development of post-revolutionary Russia. It uses the dynamics that emerged from the intertwining of the Bolshevik programmatic pretensions promoted from the state instance with the actions of the workers’ movement as the main organizing criterion of the analysis. Contrary to the perspective which interpreted the revolutionary process of 1917 and its eventual development on the basis of a theoretical compartmentalization into mutually exclusive historical periods, it is argued that the approach proposed under this prism allows to inscribe the results of the research in a horizon of Longue Durée.
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