Stalin's Peasants

Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-19-510459-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

The collectivization of Russian farms was the cornerstone of Soviet agricultural policy during the 1930s. Fitzpatrick's book, about Soviet forced collectivization and its impact on the Russian village, will be the first in Western or Soviet literature to explore the dramatic transformation of peasant life caused by collectivization. It is based on new and unknown material from recently-opened Soviet archives. In this richly textured and fascinatingly detailed book, the author analyses the peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the state-inflicted drama of the collectivized village. For the first time it is possible to see real people behind the facade of the Soviet propaganda account of the happy "Potemkin Village". The regime's own strategy involved humiliation and violence.

Fitzpatrick's study is truly a landmark in studies of the Stalinist period - a thickly-documented social history told from the traumatic experiences of that long-suffering underclass of peasants. Her study has been called a "breakthrough" by specialists in her field and will affect how the history of the Soviet period will be done by subsequent generations of scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzpatrick, Sheila

Fitzpatrick, Shelia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Sheila Fitzpatrick is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is the author or editor of numerous books including The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia (1992).