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Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

by Lynn Viola (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $32.85
Synopsis

Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 328
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 29 Apr 1999
ISBN 10: 0195131045
ISBN 13: 9780195131048

Media Reviews
This is an excellently researched and well argued book ... it makes a very significant contribution to the ever expanding literature on Soviet history in the 1930s. * Linda Edmondson, Labour History Review *
Viola presents details of the almost civil-war conditions existing at that period if the USSR, having researched material from the Soviet archives which has only become available in the last few years. * The News Line *
Viola presents details of the almost civil-war conditions existing at that period in the USSR, having researched material from the Soviet archives which has only become available in the last few years. * Marxist Review, July 1997 *
Author Bio

Lynne Viola is Professor of History and a member of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. Her previous books include The Best Sons of the Fatherland (OUP, 1987), A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History (co-editor, 1990), and Russian Peasant Women (co-editor, OUP, 1992).