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

Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
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Год
 
Страниц
 
240
ISBN
 
0195131045
Издатель
 
Palgrave Macmillan
Категория
 
История бизнеса

Содержание:

Искусство Древней Руси

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The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin retrieves a crucial lost chapter from the history of Stalinist Russia. The peasant revolt against collectivization, as reconstructed by author Lynne Viola, was the most violent and sustained resistance to the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. Conservative estimates suggest that over the course of the 1020s and early 1930s, more than 1,100 people were assassinated, more than 13,000 villages rioted, and over 2.5 million people participated in this active struggle of resistance. This book is about the men and women who tried to preserve their families, communities, and beliefs from the depredations of Stalinism. Their acts were often heroic, but these heroes were homespun, ordinary people who were driven to acts of desperation by cruel and brutal state policies. This is a study of peasant community, culture, and politics through the prism of resistance. Based on...

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