Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State

Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy

• Author(s): H. Hudson,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 177
• ISBN_10: 1137010541
  ISBN_13: 9781137010544
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , History / Modern / General , Political Science / History & Theory , History / Military / General , History / Russia / General , History / World , History / General ,

Description:... This book combines social and institutional histories of Russia, focusing on the secret police and their evolving relationship with the peasantry. Based on an analysis of Cheka/OGPU reports, it argues that the police did not initially respond to peasant resistance to Bolshevik demands simply with the gun—rather, they listened to peasant voices.