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Mainstream historiography has presented Stalinist parties as 'omnipotent', effectively stripping workers and society in general of its 'relative autonomy'. Building on an impressive amount of archive material, Pittaway convincingly shows how dynamics of class, gender, skill level, and rural versus urban location, shaped politics in the period.
“Some of the people in Six by Ten were convicted of crimes, but this book convicts the United States of an incomparably greater crime: blighting the lives and searing the souls of untold hundreds of thousands of men, women, and teenagers by a practice that more enlightened countries consider inhuman. You will not find a more riveting indictment anywhere of our reckless use of solitary confinement, nor one told through such a variety of moving, poignant voices.”
—Adam Hochschild, author, King Leopold’s Ghost
“The voices heard in this powerful collection are haunting. As these men and women make inescapably clear, the practice of removing human beings from everything that makes them sane and stable—keeping them for days, months, and years in utter isolation without light, touch, sound, space, and hope—is unimaginably cruel. Six by Ten is a deeply moving and profoundly unsettling wake up call for all citizens. The use of solitary confinement is deeply immoral and we must insist that it be banned in all of our nation’s prisons. Immediately.”
—Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Adam Fabry has a PhD from Brunel University. He sits on the editorial board of Debatte: Journal for Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and on the corresponding editorial board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. He currently writes about the political economy of neoliberalism and the politics of the far-right.
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Introduction
By Adam B. Fabry
1 Crisis, War and Occupation
2 Building Socialism
3 The Reproduction of Hierarchy: Skill, Working-Class Culture, and the State in Early Socialist Hungary
4 The Social Limits of State Control: Time, the Industrial Wage Relation, and Social Identity in Stalinist Hungary, 1948–53
5 Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary
6 The Revolution and Industrial Workers: The Disintegration and Reconstruction of Socialism, 1953–58
7 Accommodation and the Limits of Economic Reform: Industrial Workers during the Making and Unmaking of Kádár’s Hungary
8 Research in Hungarian Archives on Post-1945 History
9 Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian-Hungarian Borderlands, 1945–56
10 Workers and the Change of System
11 Fascism in Hungary
12 Towards a Social History of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary
Epilogue
By Nigel Swain
References
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