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Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State

Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy
By:H. Hudson
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230338869
eText ISBN:9781137010544
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.