Donald Filtzer is Professor of Russian History at the University of East London. His previous publications include Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System After World War Two (2002), Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985 1991 (1994) and The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR, 1953 1964 (1993).