Stalin's Peasants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stalin's Peasants write by Sheila Fitzpatrick. This book was released on 1994. Stalin's Peasants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, this work analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village
Peasant Rebels Under Stalin
Peasant Rebels Under Stalin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peasant Rebels Under Stalin write by Lynne Viola. This book was released on 1999-01-28. Peasant Rebels Under Stalin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 newly declassified Soviet archives, including previously inaccessible OGPU (secret police) reports, Viola's work documents the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to a virtual civil war between state and peasantry. This book is must reading for scholars of Soviet history, Stalinism, popular resistance, and Russian peasant culture.
Everyday Stalinism
Everyday Stalinism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Stalinism write by Sheila Fitzpatrick. This book was released on 1999-03-04. Everyday Stalinism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.
Mobilizing Soviet Peasants
Mobilizing Soviet Peasants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mobilizing Soviet Peasants write by Mary E. A. Buckley. This book was released on 2006. Mobilizing Soviet Peasants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the story of rural shock work and Stakhanovism in the Soviet countryside in the late 1930s, this book tries to contextualise Stakhanovism, considering historical context, changing party priorities, propaganda, the press, the nature of farm leaderships, shortages, peasant attitudes, gender, purges, and local organisations.
Stalin's Genocides
Stalin's Genocides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stalin's Genocides write by Norman M. Naimark. This book was released on 2010-07-19. Stalin's Genocides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
