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

Hugh D. Hudson, Jr.

Palgrave Macmillan, c2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index

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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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