Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State: Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy PDF
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Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State Also by Hugh D. Hudson, Jr. Modernization through Resistance: War, Mir, Tsar, and Law in the World of the Pre-reform Russian Peasantry Blueprints and Blood: The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture, 1917–1937 The Rise of the Demidov Family and the Russian Iron Industry in the Eighteenth Century Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy Hugh D. Hudson, Jr. peasants, political police, and the early soviet state Copyright © Hugh D. Hudson, Jr., 2012. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-33886-9 All rights reserved. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States – a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-34197-9 ISBN 978-1-137-01054-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137010544 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hudson, Hugh D. Peasants, political police, and the early Soviet State : surveillance and accommodation under the new economic policy / Hugh D. Hudson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Collectivization of agriculture—Soviet Union—History. 2. Peasants—Soviet Union—History. 3. Soviet Union. Ob?edinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie. 4. Agriculture and state—Soviet Union—History. 5. Soviet Union—History— 1917–1936. I. Title. HD1492.S65H83 2012 363.28'3094709041—dc23 2011023643 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by MPS Limited, A Macmillan Company First edition: January 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Map by Thomas R. Jordan. Portions of this study were fi rst published as “Peasant-State Relations During the Formative Years of the New Economic Policy,” Canadian Slavonic Papers 50, nos. 3–4 (2008): 373–396. The peasants want peace and the assurance that the right to dispose of their property will not be violated. Feliks Dzerzhinskii, head of the OGPU, in a report to the Politburo, June 1, 1924. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures viii Map ix Acknowledgments x List of Terms and Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 1 State, Peasants, and Police to 1921 7 2 Famine, Market Forces, and Ameliorative Actions, 1921–1923 25 3 Lenin’s Death, “Face to the Countryside,” and Growing Police Fears, 1924 47 4 Soviet Elections, Grain Crises, and Kulaks, 1925–1926 71 5 L iquidation of Kulak Infl uence, War Panic, and the Elimination of the Kulaks as a Class, 1927–1929 89 Conclusion 113 Notes 127 Bibliography 165 Index 175 Figures 1.1 P easants at table (Gruppa krestian za stolom, Rossiiskaia imperiia) 19 3.1 “Vladimir Il’ich Lenin is Dead” 48 3.2 Feliks Dzerzhinskii, Head of OGPU 55 5.1 “We Will Liquidate the Kulaks as a Class” 110 C.1 OGPU denunciation for assisting kulaks 115 European Russia during NEP Source: Based on illustration from Entsiklopedicheskii Slovar’ F. A. Brokgauza i I. A. Efrona (St. Petersburg, 1890–1907) utilizing ERSI base map software.
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