Minsk. Science and technology. 1984. 400 p. Soviet historiography was supplemented with a generalizing study of one of the detachments of the working class of the USSR. The publication of the peer-reviewed volume 1 meets the urgent scientific and political task of studying the path taken by the working class of our country. The main thing is not to concretize certain quantitative characteristics; it is important to understand this historical path as a process of revealing the essence of the working class, to show how, transforming the world, it itself is transformed at each stage of its development. This book continues the active work of historians of the BSSR in creating generalizing works on the history of the republic, its Communist Party, trade unions and the Komsomol, industry and agriculture. Unfortunately, the authors gave up the opportunity to analyze the accumulated valuable historiographic material, including the all-Union scale, without placing the corresponding section in the work and almost without referring to historiographic characteristics.- 1 Authors: M. O. Beach, K. I. Shabunya, Z. Y. Kopyssky, V. P. Panyutin, Z. E. Abezgauz, E. M. Savitsky. Editorial Board of the volume: K. I. Shabunya (editor-in-chief), M. O. Beach, Yu. I.Kiryanov. page 121 kam in the course of the presentation. At the same time, the authors ' team significantly expanded the source base for studying the topic, primarily through archival funds and periodicals. As a result, new data are obtained and summarized that characterize the formation of the proletariat of Belarus, the dynamics, scope, nature and forms of its struggle. The content of the book answers a number of important questions: how in the course of the socio - economic and political development of Belarus, which proceeded in an indissoluble connection with all-Russian conditions, the objective and subjective prerequisites of the socialist revolution matured, the proletariat was formed and declared itself as a hegemon in ... Читать далее