Peace In Their Time

Episode 162 - Kolkhoz, Part II

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The first year of collectivization was a wild time, even before the massive famine of 1932-33. The world of the peasantry was turned upside down, and modes of life that had predominated for generations were changed forever. And a bunch of people got deported and a band of Communist faithful showed up to lend a hand. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

  1. Fitzpatrick, Sheila Stalin's Peasants: Resistance & Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization Oxford University Press 1994
  • Lewin, Moshe Making the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia Pantheon Books 1985
  • Viola, Lynne The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization Oxford University Press 1987
  • Kenez, Peter A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, 2nd Edition Cambridge University Press 2006

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