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Levchik D.A. [Two tactics of social democracy in trade unions (1990–1995)] Political Science and Technology, 2025, Vol. 5, Iss. 1 Available at: https://politicjournal.ru/PDF/05PK125.pdf (in Russian).
Two tactics of social democracy in trade unions (1990–1995)
Levchik Dmitry Aleksandrovich
Zhirinovsky University of World Civilizations, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: levchik63@rambler.ru
Abstract. The relevance of the article is determined by the need to study modern party formation in Russia.
The purpose of the article is to identify the reasons for the tactical failures of the center-left in the Russian civil society of the period under study, which led to the fact that center-left in Russia did not take place as a significant political phenomenon.
The research methods are a comparative analysis of the tactics of the center-left in trade unions in Europe, the USA and Russia, a comparative analysis of the bloc tactics of the center-left, as well as the tactics of creating expert party centers at trade unions.
The main conclusion of the article is that in 1990–1995, the Russian center-left political spectrum used the same tactics for working with trade unions as in all historical center-left parties: the creation of a bloc of center-left and trade unions, the creation of an expert group of social Democrats on the one hand, and trade unions on the other. But these techniques did not lead to the desired effect. The bloc tactics of the center-left (primarily the Social Democrats and Socialists) and trade union activists did not work, expert groups could not realize their intellectual potential, and they were sorely short of funds to finance any trade union initiatives (petition campaigns, rallies, pickets, marches). We see the reason for the failures in the structural and genetic shortcomings of the Russian center-left proto-parties, their unwillingness to block tactics, weak financing of center-left expert centers and foreign (American) interference in the affairs of Russian trade unions.
The prospects of the study are to study the tactics of representatives of center-left and social democratic parties and associations in trade unions and workers’ strike committees in a later period.
Keywords: perestroika; center-left; social democracy; trade union; strike; elections; party strategy; party tactics
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