Peasant Rebels under Stalin : Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. 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 -- 2. The Mark of Antichrist: Rumors and the Ideology of Peasant Resistance -- The world turned upside down -- The peasant nightmare -- From the Lord God -- Conclusion -- 3. "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 -- 4. 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 -- 5. March Fever: Peasant Rebels and Kulak Insurrection -- The scale of rebellion -- Down with Antichrist -- Meaningless and merciless -- Brigandage -- Conclusion -- 6. "We Let the Women 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 -- 7. 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Peasant Rebels Under Stalin is the first history of the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization. Author Lynne Viola's study demonstrates that the scope of peasant resistance was far wider and more serious than previously assumed. Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, Viola's work documents the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to a virtual civil war between state and peasantry.

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