In this ground- breaking study, Lynne Viola - the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization - brilliantly excavates a lost chapter in the history of the Stalin revolution. This book affords an intimate look at the campaign of the `25,000ers', the industrial workers who were sent into the Soviet countryside to implement collectivization during the 1930s.
Here Lynne Viola, the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization, brilliantly examines a lost chapter in the history of the Stalin revolution.
