In Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial, Lynne Viola, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, recounts statistics that still defy belief ... Viola writes [in] words with renewed significance in today's politically volatile, polarized climate. LA Review of Books
The book offers a comprehensive evaluation of various sources related to the Stalinist period in Russia, analyzing materials such as memoirs, official documents, city directories, and computerized databases. Experts from both Western and Soviet backgrounds contribute their insights, highlighting the potential and richness of these diverse resources for understanding this historical era.
Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry.