Hudson Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State

Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-01054-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten, eBook

This book combines social and institutional histories of Russia, focusing on the secret police and their evolving relationship with the peasantry. Based on an analysis of Cheka/OGPU reports, it argues that the police did not initially respond to peasant resistance to Bolshevik demands simply with the gun—rather, they listened to peasant voices.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hudson, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

State, Peasants, and Police to 1921  Famine, Market Forces, and Ameliorative Actions, 1921-1923  Lenin's Death, 'Face to the Countryside,' and Growing Police Fears, 1924  Soviet Elections, Grain Crises, and Kulaks, 1925-1926  Liquidation of Kulak Influence, War Panic, and the Elimination of the Kulaks as a Class, 1927-1929

Über Autor(innen)

HUGH HUDSON Professor of history at Georgia State University, USA. His publications include Modernization Through Resistance: War, Mir, Tsar, and Law in the World of the Pre-reform Russian Peasantry ; Blueprints and Blood: The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1937 ; and The Rise of the Demidov Family and the Russian Iron Industry in the Eighteenth Century .