Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State [electronic resource] : Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy /
Hudson, H.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Map; Acknowledgments; List of Terms and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 State, Peasants, and Police to 1921; 2 Famine, Market Forces, and Ameliorative Actions, 1921-1923; 3 Lenin's Death, ""Face to the Countryside,"" and Growing Police Fears, 1924; 4 Soviet Elections, Grain Crises, and Kulaks, 1925-1926; 5 Liquidation of Kulak Influence, War Panic, and the Elimination of the Kulaks as a Class, 1927-1929; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Soviet Union. Obʺedinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
World politics.
Military history.
Russia—History.
Europe, Eastern—History.
World history.
European History.
Modern History.
Political History.
History of Military.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.