Absolutely outstanding. Kevin Murphy has done an incredibly detailed and comprehensive study of the biggest metal factory in Moscow from before the revolution in 1917 and until after the end of Stalin's counterrevolutionary Five Year Plan in 1932. Murphy has looked at the diaries of workers, the records of factory council meetings, reports by secret police, union records, minutes of party meetings and much more besides. He is able to chart the revolution not just as seen by the workers but as carried out by the workers, how the Civil War affects the life of the factory and how the workers understand the hopes for the success of the revolution as other revolutions in Europe fail, and how the workers fight back against the Stalinist counterrevolution during the latter part of the NEP and the Five Year Plan. A brilliant work and thoroughly recommended.