Contents; Introduction; 1. The Last and Most Decisive Battle: Collectivization as Civil War; 2. The Mark of Antichrist: Rumors and the Ideology of Peasant Resistance; 3. "We Have No Kulaks Here": Peasant Luddism, Evasion, and Self-Help; 4. Sawed-Off Shotguns and the Red Rooster: Peasant Terror and Civil War; 5. March Fever: Peasant Rebels and Kulak Insurrection; 6. "We Let the Women Do the Talking": Bab'i Bunty and the Anatomy of Peasant Revolt; 7. On the Sly: Everyday Forms of Resistance in the Collective Farm, 1930 and Beyond; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-303) and index
