Peasant Rebels Under Stalin

Lynne Viola is Professor of History and a member of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. Her previous books include The Best Sons of the Fatherland (OUP, 1987), A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History (co-editor, 1990), and Russian Peasant Women (co-editor, OUP, 1992).

• Introduction1: The Last and Most Decisive Battle: Collectivization as Civil War2: The Mark of Antichrist: Rumors and the Ideology of Peasant Resistance3: "We Have No Kulaks Here": Peasant Luddism, Evasion, and Self-Help4: Sawed-Off Shotguns and the Red Rooster: Peasant Terror and Civil War5: March Fever: Peasant Rebels and Kulak Insurrection6: "We Let the Women Do the Talking": Bab'i Bunty and the Anatomy of Peasant Revolt7: On the Sly: Everyday Forms of Resistance in the Collective Farm, 1930 and Beyond

This is an excellently researched and well argued book ... it makes a very significant contribution to the ever expanding literature on Soviet history in the 1930s.