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A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov
Semën Kanatchikov, born in a central Russian village in 1879, was one of the thousands of peasants who made the transition from traditional village life to the life of an urban factory worker in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last years of the nineteenth century. Unlike the others, however, he recorded his personal and political experiences (up to the even of the 1905 Re
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508 pages
Published
July 1st 1986
by Stanford University Press
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Translated and laboriously edited (70 pages of footnotes), with an introduction and informative postscript, by Reginald E. Zelnick.
As an historical document and an example of propagandistic revisionism, this long memoir is interesting. Kanatchnikov was a die-hard Bolshevik, and Zelnick's comments show how often he bent the truth in defaming his enemies or overstating his faction's importance. It's also a useful book in showing how a man with little education from a peasant village could rise to ...more
As an historical document and an example of propagandistic revisionism, this long memoir is interesting. Kanatchnikov was a die-hard Bolshevik, and Zelnick's comments show how often he bent the truth in defaming his enemies or overstating his faction's importance. It's also a useful book in showing how a man with little education from a peasant village could rise to ...more
Really interesting...written not for his personal benefit, but for his memoir to be taught in schools as a political novel advocating worker's rights.
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