Accidental Proletariat

Walter Connor shows how the seven decades since Stalin launched the First Five Year plan have changed Soviet workers from a disorganized mass of unskilled ex-peasants into something very much like a class--not the working class intended by Lenin and Stalin but a new and powerful "e;accidental proletariat,"e; produced by forces partly beyond the state's control. Does this new "e;proletariat"e; thre...