Looting the looters
Orlando Figes, 26 September 1991
The Russian City between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900
by Daniel Brower.
California, 253 pp., £18.95, July 1990,0 520 06764 9 Show More
by Daniel Brower.
California, 253 pp., £18.95, July 1990,
St Petersburg between the Revolutions. Workers and Revolutionaries: June 1907-February 1917
by Robert McKean.
Yale, 606 pp., £27.50, June 1990,0 300 04791 6 Show More
by Robert McKean.
Yale, 606 pp., £27.50, June 1990,
“... them susceptible to the militancy of Bolshevik propaganda. Some of these stereotypes appear in Daniel Brower’s book. Its great virtue is that it seeks the roots of this labour violence, not just in the matrix of industrial relations (the Marxists’ tired refrain), but also in the broader context of urban development, with the problems it created of ... ”
