The best sons of the fatherland : workers in the vanguard of Soviet collectivization / Lynne Viola.
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TextNew York : Oxford University Press, 1987©1987 Description: x, 285 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195041348 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Collectivization of agriculture -- Soviet Union -- History | Collective farms -- Soviet Union -- Officials and employees | Working class -- Soviet Union | Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1928-1932LOC classification: HD1492.S65 V56 1987Summary: 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, contrary to popular belief, the 25,000ers went into the countryside as willing recruits. This unique social history uses an "on the scene" line of vision to offer a new understanding of the workings, times, and cadres of Stalin's revolution.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 263-280.
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, contrary to popular belief, the 25,000ers went into the countryside as willing recruits. This unique social history uses an "on the scene" line of vision to offer a new understanding of the workings, times, and cadres of Stalin's revolution.