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Article: Peasant Rebels: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
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- Canadian Slavonic Papers
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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Lynne Viola. Peasant Rebels: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 312 pp. Tables. Index. $73.95, cloth.
In Peasant Rebels, Lynne Viola examines "peasant culture, politics, and community... through the prism of resistance" to dekulakization and collectivization from late 1929 through the first half of 1930 (pp. viii-ix). During this time, the Communist Party sought to eradicate peasant culture and transform the Soviet countryside into an economic colony. Peasants responded as a "distinct community" by relying on a "culture of resistance" that ran the gamut from dissimulation, rumour, mutual protection and baby bunty-protests ...