Stalin’s “Revolution from Above”: Property Seizure in the Perm Region
Stalin’s “liquidation of kulaks as a class” began in the early 1930s with the seizure of peasants’ property. Dr. Suslov argues, using the Perm region as a case study, that the arbitrary nature of this campaign’s enforcement was by design, rather than an accident of application. Using the directives of the regional party bodies, he elucidates the relationship between the seemingly random application of “dekulakization” on the local level, and Stalin’s overarching goal to change the structure of Soviet society.
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Professor, Head of Modern and Contemporary Russian History Department, Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University
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