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STALIN'S PEASANTS
RESISTANCE AND SURVIVAL IN THE RUSSIAN VILLAGE AFTER COLLECTIVIZATION |
| By: |
Sheila Fitzpatrick |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£58.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195104595 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195104592 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
11 January, 1996 |
| Pages: |
408 |
| Description: |
Fitzpatrick's book is the first in Western or Soviet literature to explore the dramatic transformation of peasant life caused by the collectivization of the 1930s. Mass departures, arrests, deportations, exile, famine and show trials left bitter resentment, fear, and suspicion among the peasant populace. The author incorporates a wealth of new research on the individual human experience of collectivization. The book, innovative in approach, promises to be a majorcontribution to our understanding of life in Stalin's Russia. |
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Drawing on newly-opened Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint and petition with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, Stalin's Peasants analyses peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village. Stalin's Peasants is a story of struggle between transformationally-minded Communists and traditionally-minded peasants over the terms of collectivization: a struggle of opposing practices, not a struggle in which either side clearly articulated its position. But it is also a story about the impact of collectivization on the internal social relations and culture of the village, exploring questions of authority and leadership, feuds, denunciations, rumors, and changes in religious observance. For the first time, it is possible to see the real people behind the facade of the "Potemkin village" created by Soviet propagandists. In the Potemkin village, happy peasants clustered around a kolkhoz (collective farm) tractor, praising Stalin and promising to produce more grain as a patriotic duty.In the real Russian village of the 1930s, as we learn from Soviet political police reports, sullen and hungry peasants described collectivization as a "second serfdom," cursed all Communists, and blamed Stalin personally for their plight. Sheila Fitzpatrick's work is truly a landmark in studies of the Stalinist period-a richly-documented social history told from the traumatic experiences of the long-suffering underclass of peasants. Anyone interested in Soviet and Russian history, peasant studies, or social history will appreciate this major contribution to our understanding of life in Stalin's Russia. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the Heldt Prize of the Association for Women in Slavic |
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