Stalinism in a Russian Province

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • James Hughes

   Pages 1-6

3. Capturing the Peasantry

   • James Hughes

   Pages 7-32

4. Mobilizing Social Influence

   • James Hughes

   Pages 33-51

5. The Search for a New Method

   • James Hughes

   Pages 52-72

6. The Ural-Siberian Method

   • James Hughes

   Pages 73-91

7. Volynki: The Russian Jacquerie

   • James Hughes

   Pages 92-110

8. A Prologue of Repression

   • James Hughes

   Pages 111-135

9. Stalin’s Final Solution

   • James Hughes

   Pages 136-159

10. Barshchina and Maroderstvo

    • James Hughes

    Pages 160-182

11. The Great U-Turn

    • James Hughes

    Pages 183-203

12. Conclusion

    • James Hughes

    Pages 204-216

13. Back Matter

    Pages 217-271

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Stalinism in a Russian Province reexamines the agrarian policy pillars of Stalin's 'revolution from above' initiated in 1929-30, and is the first major study of its kind since the opening of Soviet archives. Through a pioneering application of the theoretical approaches of moral and political economy to Stalin's peasant policy, Hughes reevaluates the causes and processes involved in the great political, economic and social changes in the Soviet countryside. Rather than a bipolarized conflict between state and peasant, he profiles the socially variegated response of different peasant groups to collectivization and dekulakization and argues that it was as much a process involving social conflict between peasants.

• revolution
• Russia
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

• Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  James Hughes

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