Collectivization, or the consolidation of individual peasant farms into collective ones, was an assault on the ancient traditions of the Russian peasantry. However, on the bright side, it accelerated ...

Annals of Communism, Yale's acclaimed series, adds another major documentary history to its list. More than 100 documents from the Russian archives are translated, and interspersed with Russian ...

Beginning in the late 1970s, the reform and opening-up period brought boom times to a large swath of China — especially along the coast — and the success of the country’s new market reforms has turned ...

A clash between the Jewish peasants termed Kulaks and the Communist Jewish colonists in the Sholom Aleichem colony is reported here. The clash occurred at a meeting when the Communists insisted that ...

Famine as means of effective dictatorship: Stalin collectivized the farms and called starvation of millions of people an act of sabotage. NEW HAVEN – Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1930, Joseph ...

Seven essays, originally presented at a conference at the University of Kentucky, dealing with the peasants of Eastern Europe, the strategy of collectivization and ...

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The "Annals of Communism" series is Yale University Press's invaluable publishing enterprise that makes available previously unopened documents from the Soviet state and party archives on key topics, ...