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Red Bread

Red Bread

Hindus, Maurice
Suny, Ronald Grigor
Suny, Ronald Grigor

Paperback

Series: Midland Book, Book 485

Eastern European HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0253204852
ISBN13: 9780253204851
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Dec 1 1988
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.47 Depth: 8.17
Language: English

First published in 1931 and long out of print, Red Bread is Russian-born journalist Maurice Hindus's account of his return to his native village in 1929-30 to see for himself how Stalin's collectivization campaign was transforming the lives of the peasants among whom he had grown up in prerevolutionary times. This warm and human narrative conveys in personal and immediate terms his peasant neighbors' responses to being forced out of a centuries-old way of life and into the unfamiliar social setting and industrialized large-scale agriculture of the kolkhoz. Convinced that collectivized farming would bring Russian agriculture and the Russian peasant into the modern age, Hindus was nonetheless deeply troubled by the huge social cost and personal suffering inflicted by Stalin's ruthless campaign. Red Bread contributes an invaluable grassroots perspective on the era's dynamism and despair to the current discussion of the Soviet historical experience in the Soviet Union and the West.

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