Stephen Smith. Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917-1918.

Contents

Introduction

1 – A profile of the Petrograd working class on the eve of 1917

2 – The tsarist Factory

3 – The February Revolution: A new dispensation in the factories

4 – The structure and functions of the factory committees

5 – Trade unions and the betterment of wages

6 – The theory and practice of workers’ control of production

7 – Deepening economic chaos and the intensification of workers9 control

8 – The social structure of the labour movement

9 – The October Revolution and the organisation of industry

10 – The economic crisis and the fate of workers’ control: October 1917 to June 1918

Conclusion