| Description |
1 online resource (x, 285 pages) |
| Contents |
Workers to the countryside: from revolution to revolution -- The recruitment of the 25,000ers -- Setting the campaign in motion -- The drive to collectivize Soviet agriculture: winter 1930 -- The 25,000ers and the cadres of collectivization: the offensive on rural officialdom -- The 25,000ers at work on the collective farms -- The denouement of the campaign |
| 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, cont |
| Analysis |
Soviet Union Agricultural industries Collectivisation, 1929-1931 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Collectivization of agriculture -- Soviet Union -- History
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Collective farms -- Soviet Union -- Officials and employees
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Working class -- Soviet Union
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
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Collective farms -- Officials and employees
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Collectivization of agriculture
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Economic policy
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Working class
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Kollektivierung
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Kader
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Facharbeiter
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Collectivisatie.
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Agrarische hervormingen.
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Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1928-1932.
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Soviet Union
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Sowjetunion
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198021179 |
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0198021178 |
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1280533269 |
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9781280533266 |
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9786610533268 |
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6610533261 |
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0195345363 |
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9780195345360 |
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