H. Hudson

Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State

Surveillance and Accommodation Under the New Economic Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us / Palgrave Macmillan US
• 2012 edition
• Seitenzahl: 177
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781349341979
• ISBN-10: 1349341975
• Artikelnr.: 45080633

Autorenporträt

HUGH 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. 

Inhaltsangabe

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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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

Rezensionen

'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

'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 treatment of Cheka/OGPU reports. It offers an original view of the Cheka/OGPU's agents' pragmatic, often empathetic analysis of the economic, agricultural, and political situation in the countryside, how and why those reports changed over time, and how the once independent analyses came to influence and then legitimize the sharp policy shifts enacted by the Stalin group. Insightful and valuable.' William J. Chase, professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh