Inventing a Soviet Countryside
Subtitle: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929 (Pitt Russian East European)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: February 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780822942153
Subjects: Central government; European history: from c 1900 -; Rural communities; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History; History - General History; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Agriculture; Agriculture and state; Economic aspects; Rural development; Soviet Union
Description: "In Inventing a Soviet Countryside, James Heinzen uses newly opened archives as well as published sources to examine the clash that occurred between the state and the Russian peasantry in the formative years of the Soviet government, before Stalin's bloody forced collectivization of agriculture in 1929. In the process, he provides rich insights into the problems of Soviet state building during these critical years."--Jacket.