In this book, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth slows in Russia, reviving the economy will require...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Theoretical Reflections and the First Miners' Strike -- 1. Workers, Collective Action, and Political Movements -- 2. The 1989 Miners' Strike -- II. Cold Steel: Soviet Workers and Mutual Dependence -- 3. Steelworkers and Mutual Dependence...