The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization

by Lynne Viola

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019504262X
• ISBN13: 9780195042627
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"