Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State : Surveillance and Accommodation Under the New Economic Policy

H. Hudson

ISBN 10: 1349341975 / ISBN 13: 9781349341979

Published by Palgrave Macmillan Us Dez 2011, 2011

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State : Surveillance and Accommodation Under the New Economic Policy
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Us Dez 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349341975
• ISBN 13: 9781349341979
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 10D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 227 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.