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Introduction
1: The Last and Most Decisive Battle: Collectivization as Civil
War
2: The Mark of Antichrist: Rumors and the Ideology of Peasant
Resistance
3: "We Have No Kulaks Here": Peasant Luddism, Evasion, and
Self-Help
4: Sawed-Off Shotguns and the Red Rooster: Peasant Terror and Civil
War
5: March Fever: Peasant Rebels and Kulak Insurrection
6: "We Let the Women Do the Talking": Bab'i Bunty and the Anatomy
of Peasant Revolt
7: On the Sly: Everyday Forms of Resistance in the Collective Farm,
1930 and Beyond
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).
"An important contribution to the social history of
collectivization, the Soviet peasantry, and peasant resistance in
general."--CHOICE
"This is an impressively researched and well written study that
will surely become a standard work on Soviet collectivization and
peasant revolt. It is a book steeped in the comparative literature
of peasant studies as well as in Soviet archival materials, and
social historians outside the Russian field should find it no less
engrossing and valuable than their colleagues in Russian/Soviet
history."--Journal of Social History
"Viola merits praise for drawing new attention to the question and
for recovering lost voices who nearly drowned in the cataclysms of
recent times."--Agricultural History
"Viola documents each of her major themes in a meticulous and
compelling way thereby making Peasant Rebels under Stalin an
impressive scholarly achievement. Her work breaks new
ground..."--Canadian Slavonic Papers
"Peasant Rebels Under Stalin will undoubtedly become the standard
work for understanding the stages and wide variety of responses to
the Soviet party-state's violent assault on the countryside and
rural culture generally."--Slavic Review
"This is revisionist scholarship at its very best. Viola reveals an
entirely new dimension to important historical phenomena such as
collectivization and state-society relations under Stalin. Her work
offers much to those interested in Russian-Soviet history, peasant
studies, revolution, gender differences in political behavior, and
the origins of Stalinist totalitarianism."--American Historical
Review
"A thought-provoking book about peasant resistance to Stalin's
reconstruction of the countryside....Viola's book opens a
fascinating window on the peasant world...[It] will be a starting
point for all serious thought on the subject."--The Journal of
Economic History
"Viola shows clearly in this fine monograph that the victims did
not passively accept their fate. She details with great precision
the multiple strategies that rural people used to defend themselves
and their property against the agents of forced
collectivization."--The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"This a well-written, well-researched, and path-breaking study. It
is a major contribution to the literature and all subsequent
accounts of The Soviet Union in the 1930's (and beyond)."--Lesley
A. Rimmel, Stanford University
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