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The best sons of the fatherland : workers in the vanguard of Soviet collectivization / Lynne Viola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Viola, Lynne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collectivization of agriculture--Soviet Union--History.
- Collectivization of agriculture.
- Collective farms--Soviet Union--Officials and employees.
- Collective farms.
- Working class--Soviet Union.
- Working class.
- Soviet Union--Economic policy--1928-1932.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this ground-breaking study Lynne Viola--the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization--brilliantly examines a lost chapter in the history of the Stalin revolution. Looking in detail at the backgrounds, motivations, and mentalities of the 25,000ers, Viola embarks on the first Western investigation of the everyday activities of Stalin's rank-and-file shock troops, the'leading cadres'of socialist construction. In the process, Viola sheds new light on how the state mobilized working-class support for collectivization and reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the 25,000ers went into the countryside as willing recruits. This unique social history uses an'on the scene'line of vision to offer a new understanding of the workings, times, and cadres of Stalin's revolution.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. Workers to the Countryside: From Revolution to Revolution; 2. The Recruitment of the 25,000ers; 3. Setting the Campaign in Motion; 4. The Drive to Collectivize Soviet Agriculture: Winter 1930; 5. The 25,000ers and the Cadres of Collectivization: The Offensive on Rural Officialdom; 6. The 25,000ers at Work on the Collective Farms; 7. The Denouement of the Campaign; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; A Note on Sources; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-53326-9
- 9786610533268
- 0-19-802117-8
- 0-19-534536-3
- OCLC:
- 652045652
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