Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 22:33:53 +0100
From: john gray <johngray-AT-geocities.com>
Subject: Re: Factory Committees


Steve Wright wrote:

> Aileen,
> 
> There was a debate in the seventies in the Glasgow-based journal _Critique_
> between Maurice Brinton and Chris Goodey - issues 3 (Autumn 1974) and 4
> (Spring 1975). Both articles are called "Factory Committees and the
> Dictatorship of the Proletariat".

I looked up my issues of Critique to find I don't have these but I do have issue 5 and 
the debate concluded in that issue.
 
> Peter Rachleff wrote something which appeared in _Radical America_ about
> that time, and I think it was reprinted in a book edited by Paul Mattick
> Jnr and others (I have lost my copy, so maybe Paul can supply the details). 
It was called 'Soviets and Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution' and its on my 
web site at www.geocities.com/~johngray/raclef.htm. Its short but the footnotes contain 
some useful references. Another interesting book is Oscar Anweilers 'The Soviets. The 
Russian Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Councils 1905-1921' [Random House 1974]. John 
Keep's 'The Russian Revolution - A study in mass mobilisation' [W.W.Norton 1976] has two 
short chapters about factory committees - its from a hostile perspective but contains 
some interesting information based on Russian sources. 

I'd hope that the opening up of archives in Russia would have produced some more stuff. 
Does anyone know of any ?

John Gray

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