Episode 163 - Kolkhoz, Part III

To wrap up this look at collectivization in the USSR, I focus in on the famine years of 1932-33. Why it happened, how it affected people, how the state responded. Really kind of hard to describe the scale of it, although I give it a shot.    Bibliography for this episode:    Fitzpatrick, Sheila Stalin's Peasants: Resistance & Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization Oxford University Press 1994 Viola, Lynne Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance Oxford University Press 1996 Lewin, Moshe Making the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia Pantheon Books 1985 Lewin, Moshe The Soviet Century Verso 2016 Kotkin, Stephen Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 Penguin Press 2017 Suny, Ronald Grigor The Cambridge History of Russia Volume III: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 2006 Kenez, Peter A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, 2nd Edition Cambridge University Press 2006   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]