The first year of collectivization was a wild time, even before the massive famine of 1932-33. The world of the peasantry was turned upside down, and modes of life that had predominated for generations were changed forever. And a bunch of people got deported and a band of Communist faithful showed up to lend a hand.

Bibliography for this episode:

1. Fitzpatrick, Sheila Stalin's Peasants: Resistance & Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization Oxford University Press 1994
2. Lewin, Moshe Making the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia Pantheon Books 1985
3. Viola, Lynne The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization Oxford University Press 1987
4. Kenez, Peter A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, 2nd Edition Cambridge University Press 2006

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