Viola Lynne. Peasant Rebels under Stalin; Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Oxford University Press, 1996. — 325 p.Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry.