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Face to the Village the Riazan countryside under Soviet rule, 1921-1930 / Tracy McDonald.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2011.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 422 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442686113
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DK511 .F334 2011
  • DK511
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The Setting -- The Police -- The Courts -- The Rural Soviet -- Part two : The Battle for Resources: What Non-Violent Crime Reveals about the Countryside -- Taxation : Talking with the Taxman about Subsistence; or, Feeding the Proletarian Cat -- The Forest : Wood, Warmth, and Repair -- Part three : The Battle for Souls : What Violent Crime Reveals about the Countryside -- Bandit Tales : The Stream of the Still and the Lure of Easy Profit -- Hooliganism : Toward the Cultured Life -- Rough Justice : The Village Disciplines Its Own -- Pitelino -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary.
Subject: In the summer of 1924, the Bolshevik Party called on scholars, the police, the courts, and state officials to turn their attention to the villages of Russia. The subsequent campaign to 'face the countryside' generated a wealth of intelligence that fed into the regime's sense of alarmed conviction that the countryside was a space outside Bolshevik control. Richly rooted in archival sources, including local and central-level secret police reports, detailed cases of the local and provincial courts, government records, and newspaper reports, Face to the Village is a nuanced study of the everyday workings of the Russian village in the 1920s. Local-level officials emerge in Tracy McDonald's study as vital and pivotal historical actors, existing between the Party's expectations and peasant interests. McDonald's careful exposition of the relationships between the urban centre and the peasant countryside brings us closer to understanding the fateful decision to launch a frontal attack on the countryside in the fall of 1929 under the auspices of collectivization.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Part one : The Battle for Space: What Physical and Virtual Space Reveal about the Countryside -- The Setting -- The Police -- The Courts -- The Rural Soviet -- Part two : The Battle for Resources: What Non-Violent Crime Reveals about the Countryside -- Taxation : Talking with the Taxman about Subsistence; or, Feeding the Proletarian Cat -- The Forest : Wood, Warmth, and Repair -- Part three : The Battle for Souls : What Violent Crime Reveals about the Countryside -- Bandit Tales : The Stream of the Still and the Lure of Easy Profit -- Hooliganism : Toward the Cultured Life -- Rough Justice : The Village Disciplines Its Own -- Pitelino -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary.

In the summer of 1924, the Bolshevik Party called on scholars, the police, the courts, and state officials to turn their attention to the villages of Russia. The subsequent campaign to 'face the countryside' generated a wealth of intelligence that fed into the regime's sense of alarmed conviction that the countryside was a space outside Bolshevik control. Richly rooted in archival sources, including local and central-level secret police reports, detailed cases of the local and provincial courts, government records, and newspaper reports, Face to the Village is a nuanced study of the everyday workings of the Russian village in the 1920s. Local-level officials emerge in Tracy McDonald's study as vital and pivotal historical actors, existing between the Party's expectations and peasant interests. McDonald's careful exposition of the relationships between the urban centre and the peasant countryside brings us closer to understanding the fateful decision to launch a frontal attack on the countryside in the fall of 1929 under the auspices of collectivization.

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