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Hammer, Sickle, and Soil - The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture (Hardcover)
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Hammer, Sickle, and Soil - The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture (Hardcover)
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In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing
story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms
throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period
from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social
engineering at the time and the first example of the complete
conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was
above all intended to bring to Russia Marx's promised bright future
of socialism. In the process, however, it caused widespread peasant
unrest, massive relocations, and ultimately led to millions dying
in the famine of 1932-33. Drawing on scholarly studies and
primary-source collections published since the opening of the
Soviet archives three decades ago, now, for the first time, this
volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general
reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters from the
period that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the
revolution in Soviet agriculture under Stalin. In chilling detail
the author describes how the havoc and destruction wrought in the
countryside sowed the seeds of destruction of the entire Soviet
experiment.
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