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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: H. HudsonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.372kg ISBN: 9780230338869ISBN 10: 0230338860 Pages: 177 Publication Date: 15 December 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsState, 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, 1927-1929Reviews'...the greatest contributions of Hudson's study are that it introduces a third actor into the story of peasant-state relations in the early Soviet period - the secret police - and that it suggests that, if the regime failed to reach an accommodation with the peasantry during NEP, it was not for a lack of trying.' - Colleen M. Moore, Indiana University, The NEP Era: Soviet Russia 1921-1928 <p>'In a valuable, fresh study of the Soviet countryside and state policy, Hugh Hudson draws deeply on police reports from the 1920s. Along the way, he provides important new insight into peasant concepts of justice and legitimate government. The story of how the police and the leadership shifted after Lenin's death from realistic appraisals of rural problems to a view that 'enemies' were leading the peasantry is complex; Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State yields much new information about the development of Soviet policy in a crucial area.'--Robert W. Thurston, Phillip R. Shriver Professor of History, Miami University of Ohio<p>'Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State focuses on Cheka/OGPU reports from the countryside, specifically how agents assessed the peasants' mood, and the sources of peasants' discontent and satisfaction. It is a tightly focused book that stays within the bounds of reports (archival materials), and it is very balanced in its tr Author InformationHUGH HUDSON Professor of history at Georgia State University, USA. His publications include Modernization Through Resistance: War, Mir, Tsar, and Law in the World of the Pre-reform Russian Peasantry; Blueprints and Blood: The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1937; and The Rise of the Demidov Family and the Russian Iron Industry in the Eighteenth Century. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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