Iuzovka and Revolution, Volume I: Life and Work in Russia's Donbass, 1869-1924

Theodore H. Friedgut

Published by Princeton University Press 1989

Iuzovka and Revolution, Volume I

Life and Work in Russia's Donbass, 1869-1924

Theodore H. Friedgut

Volume 1012 in the series Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University

In the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400860401

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In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of the Ukrainian steppe to found the town of Iuzovka and build a large steel plant and coal mine. Theodore Friedgut tells the remarkable story of the subsequent economic and social development of the Donbass, an area that grew to supply seventy percent of the Russian Empire's coal and iron by World War I. This first volume of a planned two-volume study focuses on the social and economic development of the Donbass, while the second volume will be devoted to political analysis. Friedgut offers a fascinating picture of the heterogeneous population of these frontier settlements. Company-owned Iuzovka, for instance, was inhabited by British bosses, Jewish artisans and merchants, and Russian peasant migrants serving as industrial workers. All these were surrounded by Ukrainian peasants resentful of the intrusive new ways of industrial life. A further contrast was that between relatively settled, skilled factory workers and a more volatile and migratory population of miners. By examining these varied groups, the author reveals the contest between Russia's industrial revolution and the striving for political revolution.

Originally published in 1989.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvi
PART I. The Rise of the Donbass, 1869-1914
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Donbass before luzovka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2 : The Genesis of luzovka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter 3: The New Russia Comes of Age: Economic Development to 1914 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
PART II. Life in the Donbass
Chapter 4: luzovka: The Settlement and Its Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 5: Housekeeping, Diets, and Budgets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 6: Health, Hygiene, and Sanitation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 7: Education and Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
PART III. WORKING IN THE DONBASS
Chapter 8: The Donbass Labor Force: Origins and Structure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Chapter 9 : Organization of Work. Physical Conditions. and Benefits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Chapter 10: The Growth of the Donbass Community: An Interim Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
GLOSSARY OF RUSSIAN TERMS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
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