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Soviet Labour Ideology and the Collapse of the State Soviet Labour Ideology and the Collapse of the State Bobo Lo Visiting Scholar Wolfson College Oxford First published in Great Britain 2000 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-41264-8 ISBN 978-0-230-59926-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230599260 First published in the United States of America 2000 by ST. MARTIN’S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lo, Bobo, 1959– Soviet labour ideology and the collapse of the state / Bobo Lo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Labor policy—Soviet Union. 2. Labor productivity—Soviet Union. 3. Soviet Union—Economic policy—1981–1985. 4. Soviet Union—Economic policy—1986–1991. I. Title. HC340.L3 L6 1999 331.11'0947—dc21 99–048279 © Bobo Lo 2000 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 978-0-333-75167-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 To Lyn, for ensuring that I'd be around to write this book Contents Acknowledgements viii List of Abbreviations ix Note on Transliteration x 1 Introduction 1 2 Andropov and the Intensification of Labour 17 3 Soviet Labour Ideology during the Chernenko Interregnum 54 4 Ideological Transformation under Gorbachev: The Moderate Intra-systemic Phase, 1985±87 67 5 Ideological Transformation under Gorbachev: The Radical Intra-systemic Phase, 1987±90 100 6 Ideological Transformation under Gorbachev: The Extra-systemic Phase, 1990±91 134 7 Labour and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Russia 167 Notes 196 Bibliography 213 Index 225 vii Acknowledgements I owe an enormous debt to more people than I am able to name here. To Lyn and Bruce Minerds for being there for me during all the times in Moscow ± good, bad and sometimes downright ugly. To Leslie Holmes, my former PhD supervisor, for his constant encouragement, indispens- able advice and great contacts! To Linda Kouvaras and Richard Ward for their wonderful friendship and support over the years. To Stephen and Jen Wilson, without whom this book would never have happened. To Leonid Kuzmich and Peter Hawley for their life-saving medical inter- ventions. To Ormond College for providing me with a splendid envir- onment in which to live and work. To my mother and father for putting up with me all these years. To Helen, Hsiao, Boba and Ping. To Stephanie and to great friends ± Lizzy, Steve and Nicola, H and Ros, Jane and Tim, Orme, Hilde and Julie. The opinions expressed in this book are personal to the author and should not be interpreted in any way as representing the views of the Australian Government. viii List of Abbreviations AUCCTU All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions CDSP Current Digest of the Soviet Press CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service GNP Gross National Product ILO International Labour Organization JPB Job Placement Bureau KOMSOMOL Communist Youth League KPSS Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza NEP New Economic Policy PTU Professionalno-tekhnicheskoe uchilishche RAPO Raionnoe agro-promyshlennoe obedinenie SOL Scientific Organization of Labour STP Scientific±Technological Progress TPC Territorial Production Complex VPO Vsesoyuznoe promyshlennoe obedinenie ix
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