Mobilizing Soviet peasants; heroines and heroes of Stalin's fields.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Mobilizing Soviet peasants; heroines and heroes of Stalin's fields.

Buckley, Mary.

Rowman & Littlefield

2006

367 pages

$39.95

Paperback

HD1536

Buckley (Cambridge U.) tells the story of rural shock work and Stakhanovism during the latter part of the 1930s and early 1940s, and analyzes its rele...

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