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Notes introduction . I. Volkovicher, “Otkliki lenskikh sobytii v Moskve,” Proletarskaia revoliutsiia  (): –; Zavety  (); Zvezda – (); I. Menitskii, “Iz proshlogo Moskovskogo studenchestva (Otkliki na Lenskie sobytiia  goda)” in Put’ k oktiabriu (Moscow, ), :–; Hoover Institution Archive, Nicolaevsky Archive, Box , File , Otdel’nyi ottisk No.  “Rabochego”: (Partii Sotsialistov -Revoliutsionerov) “Zhestokii urok”; Lenskie sobytiia 1912 goda (dok. i mat.), ed. V. Vladimirova (Moscow, ), –; M. I. Lebedev, “Lena” (Krovavyi urok): Vospominaniia uchastnika sobytii na Lene v 1912 g. 4-ogo aprelia (Feodosia , ), ; M. Ol’minskii, Iz epokhi Zvezdy i Pravdy (Moscow, ), –; and A. Vitimskii, “K lenskomu zaprosu,” Pravda  ( March ). . GosudarstvennaiaDuma.Stenograficheskieotchety.Tretiisozyv.Sessiiapiataia (St. Petersburg, ). . I. Menitskii, Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie voennykh godov (Moscow, ), ; Zhukov, “Revoliutsionnoe znachenie lenskoi zabastovki,” Proletarskaiarevoliutsiia  (): –; the quote is from Zhukov. . G. A. Arutiunov, Rabochee dvizhenie v Rossii v period novogo revoliutsionnogo pod”ema, 1910–1914 gg. (Moscow, ), –; V. I. Bonnell, Roots of Rebellion : Workers’ Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900–1914 (Berkeley, ), –, ; L. Haimson, “The Problem of Social Stability in Urban Russia, –,” pt. , Slavic Review  (December ): , ; Krizis samoderzhaviia v Rossii, 1895–1917 (Leningrad, ), –, –; Tim McDaniel, Autocracy, Capitalism, and Revolution in Russia (Berkeley, ), ; R. B. McKean, St. Petersburg between the Revolutions: Workers and Revolutionaries, June 1907–February 1917 (New Haven, ), –; M. Melancon, “‘Stormy Petrels ’: The Socialist Revolutionaries in Russia’s Labor Organizations, –,” Carl Beck Papers  (June ): . . Outside Russia, only my  journal article “The Ninth Circle” has studied the strike and shooting in detail. See M. Melancon, “The Ninth Circle: The Lena Goldfield Workers and the Massacre of  April ,” Slavic Review  (Fall ): –. . Michael Melancon, “Unexpected Consensus: Russian Society and the Lena Massacre, April ,” Revolutionary Russia  (December ): –, explores society’s reaction to the shooting. This chapter summarizes the data from the article and adds new archival material about the workers’ responses. . Among the works of interest about polyphonic speech are M. M. Bakhtin, TowardaPhilosophyoftheAct (Austin, ); SpeechGenresandOtherLate Essays (Austin, ); TheDialogicImagination (Austin, );and ProblemsofDos- toevsky’s Poetics ([Ann Arbor, Mich.], ). Useful commentaries are David Danow, The Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin: From Word to Culture (New York, ); Michael Holquist, Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World (London and New York, ); Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (Stanford, ); Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin. The Dialogical Principle (Minneapolis, ); Sue Vice, IntroducingBakhtin (Manchester, ); and Caryl Emerson, The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (Princeton, ). See also Michael Melancon and Alice Pate, “Bakhtin contra Marx and Lenin: A Polyphonic Approach to Russia’s Labor and Revolutionary Movements,” Russian History , no.  (Winter ): –. . Pravda o lensikh sobytiiakh, ed. P. N. Batshev (Moscow, ); S. S. Manukhin, Vsepoddanneishii otchet chlena Gosudarstvennogo soveta, senatora tainogo sovetnika Manukhina (St. Petersburg, ); G. I. Kvasha, Statistikosravnitel ’nye svedeniia o material’nom polozhenii rabochikh na priiskakh Lenskozolotopromyshlennogo tovarishchestva (St. Petersburg, ); A. Nevskii, Lenskie sobytiia i ikh prichiny (St. Petersburg, ). . Reginald Zelnik, Law and Disorder on the Narova River: The Kreenholm Strike of 1872 (Berkeley, ); Gerald D. Surh, 1905 in St. Petersburg: Labor, Society, and Revolution (Stanford, ); Samuel Baron, Bloody Sunday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962 (Stanford, ); Diane P. Koenker and William G. Rosenberg , Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (Princeton, ). chapter 1 . A. E. Krivolutskii, V Lenskoi taige (Moscow, ), –; I. I. Gamov, Ocherki dalekoi Sibiri (Gomel, ), . . The section about the Lena region’s geological, meteorological, biological , zoological, and anthropological characteristics and the region’s earliest gold mining reflects data from Sibirskii sbornik  (): –; Pamiatnaia knizhka Iakutskoi oblasti za 1891 g. (Iakutsk, ), –; Krivolutskii, V Lenskoi taige, – , –, , –; Gamov, Ocherki dalekoi Sibiri, –, –, –; Al. Blek, “Rabochie na lenskikh zolotykh priiskakh,” Trud v Rossii  (): –; Manukhin, Vsepoddaneishii otchet, –; F. V. Boltunov, “Otchet, . . . Materialy po voprosu o postroike severno-baikal’skogo zhelezno-dorozhnogo puti,” Trudy komandirovannoi po Vysochaishemu povelenniu Amurskoi ekspeditsii. Prilozhenie1kvypuskuXII (Khabarovsk,):–;WilliamBlackwell,TheBeginnings of Russian Industrialization, 1800–1860 (Princeton, ), –; V. V. Danilevskii, Russkaia tekhnika (Leningrad, ), –. The section heading “Land of Cold and Gold” (strana kholoda i zolota) is borrowed from Gamov, . . Information about early Lena gold mining is from Blek, “Rabochie na lenskikh zolotykh priiskakh,” ; M. I. Lebedev, Vospominaniia o lenskikh sobytiiakh 1912 g. (Moscow, ), –; Lenskie sobytiia 1912 goda: Dokumenty i materialy, ed. V. Vladimirova (Moscow, ), v–vii; V. I. Semevskii, Rabochie na Sibirskikh zolotyhk priiskakh. Istoricheskoe izsledovanie.  vols (St. Petersburg, ), vol. : Polozhenie rabochikh posle 1870 g. –, ; Boltunov, “Otchet,” –. notes to pages 9–19  [3.139.82.23] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 21:04 GMT) . Susan McCaffray, The Politics of Industrialization in Tsarist Russia: The Association of Southern Coal and Steel Producers, 1874–1914 (De Kalb, ), . . Polnoe sobranie zakonov (henceforth PSZ) (), vol. , no. , ; (), vol. , no. , –; no. , . . PSZ,(), vol.  , no. , –, and no. , –. . PSZ (), vol. , no. , –. . Ibid., –. . Daniel Orlovsky, “Professionalism in the...

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