Peasants, political police, and the early Soviet State : surveillance and accommodation under the new economic policy
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Peasants, political police, and the early Soviet State : surveillance and accommodation under the new economic policy
Palgrave Macmillan, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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