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The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization; Peasant Rebels Under Stalin retrieves a crucial lost chapter from the history of Stalinist Russia. The peasant revolt against collectivization; as reconstructed by author Lynne Viola; was the most violent and sustained resistance to the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. Conservative estimates suggest that over the course of the 1020s and early 1930s; more than 1;100 people were assassinated; more than 13;000 villages rioted; and over 2.5 million people participated in this active struggle of resistance. This book is about the men and women who tried to preserve their families; communities; and beliefs from the depredations of Stalinism. Their acts were often heroic; but these heroes were homespun; ordinary people who were driven to acts of desperation by cruel and brutal state policies. This is a study of peasant community; culture; and politics through the prism of resistance. Based on newly declassified Soviet archives; including previously inaccessible OGPU (secret police) reports; Viola's work documents the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to a virtual civil war between state and peasantry. This book is must reading for scholars of Soviet history; Stalinism; popular resistance; and Russian peasant culture.