Red bread
by Maurice Hindus
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1931
- Original language*
- Engels
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Travel, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 947.65 — History & geography History of Europe Russia and neighboring east European countries Moldova, Transnistria [Belarus now 947.8]
- LCC
- DK651 .B595 .H56 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics Local history and description Russia (Federation). Russian S.F.S.R.
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- Languages
- English, Swedish
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- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
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