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The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside

By Lynne Viola , Steven Shabad , V. P. Danilov , N. A. Ivnitskii , Denis Kozlov

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0-300-10612-2, 9780300106121
LCC
HD1492.S65 W37 2005
Open Library ID
OL3309876M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1884284 bytes)
Series
Annals of Communism Series
Volume
Volume one
Pages
464\454
Time added
2011-06-05 20:04:06

Description

The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country’s social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would come to define Stalinism. This revelatory book presents—with analysis and commentary—the most important primary Soviet documents dealing with the brutal economic and cultural subjugation of the Russian peasantry. Drawn from previously unavailable and in many cases unknown archives, these harrowing documents provide the first unimpeded view of the experience of the peasantry during the years 1927-1930.The book, the first of four in the series, covers the background of collectivization, its violent implementation, and the mass peasant revolt that ensued. For its insights into the horrific fate of the Russian peasantry and into Stalin’s dictatorship, The War Against the Peasantry takes its place an as unparalleled resource.

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