Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance - Softcover

This is an excellently researched and well argued book ... it makes a very significant contribution to the ever expanding literature on Soviet history in the 1930s. (Linda Edmondson, Labour History Review)

Viola presents details of the almost civil-war conditions existing at that period if the USSR, having researched material from the Soviet archives which has only become available in the last few years. (The News Line)

Viola presents details of the almost civil-war conditions existing at that period in the USSR, having researched material from the Soviet archives which has only become available in the last few years. (Marxist Review, July 1997)

Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry.