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Inventing a Soviet Countryside

Author : James W. Heinzen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970783
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Inventing a Soviet Countryside written by James W. Heinzen and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the largest peasant revolution in history, Russia's urban-based Bolshevik regime was faced with a monumental task: to peacefully "modernize" and eventually "socialize" the peasants in the countryside surrounding Russia's cities. To accomplish this, the Bolshevik leadership created the People's Commissariat of Agriculture (Narkomzem), which would eventually employ 70,000 workers. This commissariat was particularly important, both because of massive famine and because peasants composed the majority of Russia's population; it was also regarded as one of the most moderate state agencies because of its nonviolent approach to rural transformation.Working from recently opened historical archives, James Heinzen presents a balanced, thorough examination of the political, social, and cultural dilemmas present in the Bolsheviks' strategy for modernizing of the peasantry. He especially focuses on the state employees charged with no less than a complete transformation of an entire class of people. Heinzen ultimately shows how disputes among those involved in this plan-from the government, to Communist leaders, to the peasants themselves-led to the shuttering of the Commissariat of Agriculture and to Stalin's cataclysmic 1929 collectivization of agriculture.

The Soviet Countryside, 1917-1924

Author : Antonii Mikhai̋lovitch BOL'CHAKOV
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Countryside, 1917-1924 written by Antonii Mikhai̋lovitch BOL'CHAKOV and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Soviet Countryside

Author : Joan Beauchamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Countryside written by Joan Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Soviet Countryside

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Countryside written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collectivization and the Soviet Countryside

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Collectivization and the Soviet Countryside written by Lynne Viola and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works in Progress

Author : Jenny Leigh Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210310
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Works in Progress written by Jenny Leigh Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union’s mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture was inefficient, unpredictable, and environmentally devastating for the entire Soviet period. Yet assigning the blame exclusively to Soviet planners would be off the mark. The real story is much more complicated and interesting, Jenny Leigh Smith reveals in this deeply researched book. Using case studies from five Soviet regions, she acknowledges hubris and shortsightedness where it occurred but also gives fair consideration to the difficulties encountered and the successes—however modest—that were achieved.

Collectivization and the Soviet Countryside

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)

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Class Stratidication of the Soviet Countryside

Author : Lev Natanovitch Kritsman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Class Stratidication of the Soviet Countryside written by Lev Natanovitch Kritsman and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside written by Lynne Viola and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an archival collection for scholars interested in the history of the Soviet peasantry, collectivization, and repression in the countryside during the 1930s. The collection consists of photocopies of documents from the major archives in Moscow. Some of the documents on collectivization and dekulakization became accessible to researchers in the 1990s, which enabled the publication of the 5-volume The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization, 1927-1939 [Tragediia sovetskoi derevni: kollektivizatsiia i raskulachivanie: dokumenty i materialy 1927-1939], a work that was the result of collaboration of historians from six countries: Russia, USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and South Korea. Another important publication, which was a result of the collaboration, is the 2-volume set The Politburo and the Peasantry: Deportation and 'Special Resettlement' 1930-1940 [Politbiuro i krest'ianstvo: vysylka, spetsposelenie 1930-1940]. The greater part of this publication contains material from the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. The collection contains photocopies of documents that were not included in the above mentioned publications.

The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945

Author : Robert William Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521457705
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945 written by Robert William Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.

The Art of the Bribe

Author : James Heinzen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224761
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Bribe written by James Heinzen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen’s innovative and compelling study examines corruption under Stalin’s dictatorship in the wake of World War II, focusing on bribery as an enduring and important presence in many areas of Soviet life. Based on extensive research in recently declassified Soviet archives, The Art of the Bribe offers revealing insights into the Soviet state, its system of law and repression, and everyday life during the years of postwar Stalinism.

The war against the peasantry, 1927-1930

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book The war against the peasantry, 1927-1930 written by Lynne Viola and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Policing Stalin's Socialism

Author : David R. Shearer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156227
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Policing Stalin's Socialism written by David R. Shearer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing Stalin's Socialism is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive. It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Despite the combined work of the political and civil police the efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s.

The Big Show in Bololand

Author : Bertrand M. Patenaude
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804744935
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book The Big Show in Bololand written by Bertrand M. Patenaude and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author sheds light on a little-known chapter of U.S.-Soviet relations, using diaries, memoirs, and letters to recall the efforts of nearly 300 relief workers in easing the suffering of Russians during one of the country's worst famines.

Iconography of Power

Author : Victoria E. Bonnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924062
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Iconography of Power written by Victoria E. Bonnell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to occupy a central place in the regime's effort to imprint itself on the hearts and minds of the people and to remold them into the new Soviet women and men. In this first sociological study of Soviet political posters, Victoria Bonnell analyzes the shifts that took place in the images, messages, styles, and functions of political art from 1917 to 1953. Everyone who lived in Russia after the October revolution had some familiarity with stock images of the male worker, the great communist leaders, the collective farm woman, the capitalist, and others. These were the new icons' standardized images that depicted Bolshevik heroes and their adversaries in accordance with a fixed pattern. Like other "invented traditions" of the modern age, iconographic images in propaganda art were relentlessly repeated, bringing together Bolshevik ideology and traditional mythologies of pre-Revolutionary Russia. Symbols and emblems featured in Soviet posters of the Civil War and the 1920s gave visual meaning to the Bolshevik worldview dominated by the concept of class. Beginning in the 1930s, visual propaganda became more prescriptive, providing models for the appearance, demeanor, and conduct of the new social types, both positive and negative. Political art also conveyed important messages about the sacred center of the regime which evolved during the 1930s from the celebration of the heroic proletariat to the deification of Stalin. Treating propaganda images as part of a particular visual language, Bonnell shows how people "read" them—relying on their habits of seeing and interpreting folk, religious, commercial, and political art (both before and after 1917) as well as the fine art traditions of Russia and the West. Drawing on monumental sculpture and holiday displays as well as posters, the study traces the way Soviet propaganda art shaped the mentality of the Russian people (the legacy is present even today) and was itself shaped by popular attitudes and assumptions. Iconography of Power includes posters dating from the final decades of the old regime to the death of Stalin, located by the author in Russian, American, and English libraries and archives. One hundred exceptionally striking posters are reproduced in the book, many of them never before published. Bonnell places these posters in a historical context and provides a provocative account of the evolution of the visual discourse on power in Soviet Russia.

Russia in Flames

Author : Laura Engelstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199794219
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Russia in Flames written by Laura Engelstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution

Author : Geoffrey Swain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350243159
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution written by Geoffrey Swain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia's revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first reference point for anyone wishing to learn more about the changes which took place in Russia between 1917 and 1921 and subsequently the 20th century. Split into six sections covering political crises, politicians and parties, social groups, identities, regions and peoples, and civil war, the volume covers the collapse of Tsarism and the February Revolution, the emergence of the Provisional Government, and major historical figures such as Lenin, Kerensky and the Socialist Revolutionary leader Viktor Chernov. It also explores the events surrounding the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the first year of Soviet Government until the Bolshevik dictatorship was established, and the impact on Russia of the subsequent civil war. The focus is broader than these issues of high politics, however, since this handbook also considers events in the provinces as well as revolutionary Petrograd, and examines the social impact of the revolution in terms of class, gender, age and culture.