Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A Study of Collectivization

by Moshe Lewin

Book Overview

The collectivization of the peasants in the USSR constituted a social upheaval of a totally unprecedented nature. It was one of the most remarkable events of the present century and it has a history as long as that of Soviet power itself. The idea of a collectivized agriculture, much favoured by the leadership after the revolution, had been left in abeyance during the NEP period. Interest in the idea, and in the collective movement, revived at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393007529
• ISBN13: 9780393007527
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.7"