The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization

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.