Oct 29, 2024
Maurice Brinton -- The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, 1917-1921
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Maurice Brinton -- The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, 1917-1921
Solidarity -- As We See It
Bureaucratisation of the Soviets
'The soviets of 1917 differed from those of 1905 in a number of ways. Most important was that they now had something to defend: the political settlement which had followed the departure of the old regime. They were local authorities and part of the postrevolutionary "establishment." This responsibility put pressure on the leaders of the soviets to work with the Provisional Government to keep public life going till the war was ended and a Constituent Assembly could decide Russia's future. As a result, executive committees tended to develop into a new kind of bureaucracy, ever more remote from the soviets' plenary meetings, where the mood was tumultuous and unruly. ... Gradually, then, workers began to sense once more that their aspirations were being ignored. They began to transfer the focus of their political energy downward, from the town soviets to the elected factory committees which handled affairs at the workplace in individual enterprises and kept up pressure on employers, soviets, and government.'
Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hosking
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