That's it. Bingo!
This lady not only can translate modern Russian, word on the street has it that she can translate archaic Russian too. Something probably not too many people can do---even native Russians.
I can't ever recall meeting Heather and if I have met her I didn't connect her with her scholarship. Although it's quite possible that I know her to see her. As far as I know she is still teaching at Oberlin College.
I personally, have a very cynical view of politics and politicians. Not a mean spirited cynicism, but, a healthy skepticism. Have you ever read the Treasure of the Sierra Madre? Remember the part early in the book when Farrel and Dobbs are cheated by their "boss".
Getting back to Forging Revolution. I'm hoping that Heather will do a Part II covering the years let's say 1914 to 1924 or 1928. I am also hoping that she will cover Russian technology in 1914 as it existed in the major Russian cities industries.
Your email pal,
Tom L.
"Mr P.A. Van Heusden" wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Tom Lehman wrote:
>
> > Although this power base may have been small in ratio to the total
> > population; it existed in the nerve centers of Russia among a key
> > element in the population. There is a real interesting analysis of this
> > by a woman(whose name I can never remember) who teaches at Oberlin
> > College entitled Forging Revolution.
>
> Thanks to the Library of Congress:
> Hogan, Heather, 1949-
> Forging revolution : metalworkers, managers, and the State in St.
> Petersburg
> , 1890-1914 / Heather Hogan. Bloomington : Indiana University Press,
> c1993.
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter van Heusden : pvanheus at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
> 'The demand to give up illusions about the existing state of affairs is the
> demand to give up a state of affairs which needs illusions.' - Karl Marx