From Peter the Great to Lenin Cb: History of Russian Labour Movement With Special Reference to Trade Unionism

First published in 1968, the main purpose of this study is to present an account of the Russian Labour Movement, based mainly on original Russian sources. The Labour Movement differed greatly from those of the chief European countries from its inception to the final stage. This text investigates the main trends of the m; to analyse the origins and nature of soviets; and to describe the scope and character of the Russian Labour organization.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 From Peter the Great to Pugachev; Chapter 2 Before the Emancipation; Chapter 3 After the Emancipation; Chapter 4 The Russian Labour Movement at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 5 Police Socialism in Russia; Chapter 6 Father Gapon and the Revolution of 1905; Chapter 7 The Origins of a Legalised Trade Union Movement in Russia and the First Trades Councils*This Chapter is based on the documents and materials collected by the author in 1905–07 when he was the Honorary Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Trades Council. His investigation on this subject was approved by the University of Moscow as a thesis for a Higher Degree and published by the Seminar of Economics at the Moscow Institute of Trade and Commerce in 1913 under the title of Moskovskoye Centralnoye Bureau Professionalnykh Soyusov (the Moscow Trades Council), Moscow, 1913, pp. xv. + 192.In the original publication in Russian the author gave a bibliography of sources used by him (pp. 146–150), which was composed mainly of (a) the official reports of factory inspectors; (b) trade union journals from 1906–10; (c) Russian publications dealing with the trade union movement in Russia and abroad; (d) the Protocols of the German Trades Union Conferences; (e) the works of some foreign authors, including Mr. and Mrs. Webb, Umbreit, Schmole, I. Hüppy and others.The References to the sources indicated in the original publication are shown in the present Chapter in the footnotes. Information given without any reference to the sources is based on personal investigations of the author, and which were not available for publication at that time.; Chapter 8 The Growth of Reaction; Chapter 9 On The Eve of the World War; Chapter 10 During the War; epilogue Epilogue; workers Workers’ Family Budget Enquiries in Soviet Russia; workers1, p. 196.; the_co_operative The Co-Operative Movement in Russia*A lecture delivered by the present writer at the Summer School of the Co-operative Part y at Cober Hill, Cloughton, near Scarborough, in September 1927.; appendices Statistical Supplement and Documents; appendix1 The Regulation of 1741; appendix2 Number of Workers, Wages and Prices in Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century*Compare B. B. Glinsky, “The History of the Russian Factory” in the Historical Review. St. Petersburg, 1898, Vol. V., 74, p. 267; V. T. Pecheta, in the “National War 1812–1912.” Moscow, 1911, Vol. VII., p. 248; A. Bykov, op. cit., p. 136; M. Tugan-Baranovsky, op. cit., Ed. 1922, p. 73, etc.; appendix3 Rules of Employment of Persons Freely-Hired, 1857*“Law Code of the Russian Empire.” St. Petersburg, 1857, Vol. XI., p. 11, Div. IV., Arts. 100–114.; appendix4 The “First Russian Labour Code”; appendix5 Strikes During the Years 1895–1904*Statistics of disputes in Russia from 1895 to 1904. Published by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. St. Petersburg. Cited by Koltsov in “The Liberation Movement in Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” St. Petersburg, 1909, Vol. I., p. 224, etc. The figures in this and the two following tables concern only those factories which were subject to supervision by factory inspectors. They do notinclude factories situated in Siberia, Asia and the Caucasus, nor State factories and home industries. According to Koltsov, the information given in this table would refer to only about 50 per cent. of all existing factories in Russia, and 70 per cent. of the workers employed.; appendix6 The Rules of the Union of Workers Employed in the Tea-Distributing Trade*“The History of One Union.” Moscow, 1907, pp. 54–60.; appendix7 The Declaration to the British Labour Delegation of the Russian Printers’ Union, Passed at a General Meeting of the Union on May 23rd, 1920; appendix8 Wages and Prices of Food During the Years 1901–15*This summary is based on the author's article on “Wages during the War,” published in the “Materials as to the Rise of Prices during the War.” University of Moscow, 1916, Vol. III., p. 2II, etc.;

About the Author :
S. P. Turin