Mobilizing Soviet Peasants: Heroines and Heroes of Stalin's Fields

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Mary Buckley. Mobilizing Soviet Peasants: Heroines and Heroes of Stalin's Fields. Lanham: Rowman & Littiefields Publishers, 2006. xv, 366 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $80,00, cloth. $39.95, paper.

In her latest book Mary Buckley addresses a serious gap in the existing literature on Stakhanovism by exploring how the movement affected the Soviet Union's rural population. The book is a fascinating and thorough account that covers such diverse subjects as the media images of Stakhanovites, the role of sel'kory (village correspondents) in shaping the discourse of Stakhanovism, and ...

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