Peasant Rebels under Stalin Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Name: Peasant Rebels under Stalin Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
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ISBN: 9780195131048

ISBN-10: 0195131045

ISBN-13: 9780195131048

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lynne Viola

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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…

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.09" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction



The Last and Most Decisive Battle: Collectivization as Civil War


Primordial muzhik darkness


Planting socialism


The great turn


Stalinist metaphysics


The war on tradition


Conclusion



The Mark of Antichrist: Rumors and the Ideology of Peasant Resistance


The world turned upside down


The peasant nightmare


"From the Lord God,"


Conclusion



"We Have No Kulaks Here": Peasant Luddism, Evasion, and Self-Help


"Destroy the horse as a class,"


"Now the kulak will have to be careful to liquidate his farm in time,"


"We have no kulaks here,"


"If we are kulaks, then all Siberia is kulak,"


Conclusion



Sawed-Off Shotguns and the Red Rooster: Peasant Terror and Civil War


The scale of terror


The civil war within the civil war


"Remember, you sons of bitches, we'll get even with you,"


"Fire!,"


"We will stand up to our knees in blood before we'll give up our land,"


Conclusion



March Fever: Peasant Rebels and Kulak Insurrection


The scale of rebellion


"Down with Antichrist,"


"Meaningless and merciless,"


Brigandage


Conclusion



"We Let the Woman Do the Talking": Bab'i Bunty and the Anatomy of Peasant Revolt


"A little misunderstanding,"


Kulak agitprop and petit bourgeois instincts


Bab'i bunty


Conclusion



On the Sly: Everyday Forms of Resistance in the Collective Farm, 1930 and Beyond


The new moral economy


In the collective farm


"Self-seeking tendencies" and the grain struggle


Postscript: self-defense and self-destruction


Conclusion


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


Select Bibliography


Index