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“In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class analysis, Lenin provided his successors with conceptualizations that would be used in collectivization when Stalin launched a war against all peasants.”
― Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
― Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
“According to an OGPU report, so many livestock had been slaughtered in the Central Black Earth Region that peasants were feeding pigs with meat.”
― Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
― Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
“The transitional nature of the 1920's can also be discerned in what may be labeled a new kind of 'dvoeverie' (or dual faith), a syncretistic belief that combined peasant ways and new Communist practices in tentative and uneasy assimilation. For example, there were reports of portraits of Lenin or Kalinin turning up in icon corners and of habit-ridden old peasants crossing themselves in front of these holy images.”
― Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
― Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
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