Focusing on this working class who helped establish Soviet power, she argues that though the workers did not rule as a class and actually suffered losses in their lives, in the end they actually were able to move upward. Fitzpatrick then writes that the leaders used the working class until the goals had been achieved, it was at this time that Stalin began to change the feeling toward the working class and everything changed. “Yet he stamped out any residual emanicpatory impulses, presiding over the consolidation of a leviathan state in which a ruling elite enjoyed power and privilege at the expense of the mass of the people, and in which forms of patriarchy and Russian chauvinism were
Focusing on this working class who helped establish Soviet power, she argues that though the workers did not rule as a class and actually suffered losses in their lives, in the end they actually were able to move upward. Fitzpatrick then writes that the leaders used the working class until the goals had been achieved, it was at this time that Stalin began to change the feeling toward the working class and everything changed. “Yet he stamped out any residual emanicpatory impulses, presiding over the consolidation of a leviathan state in which a ruling elite enjoyed power and privilege at the expense of the mass of the people, and in which forms of patriarchy and Russian chauvinism were