Face to the Village
In the summer of 1924, the Bolshevik Party called on scholars, the police, the courts, and state officials to turn their attention to the villages of Russia. The subsequent campaign to ''face the countryside'' generated a wealth of intelligence that fed into the regime''s sense of alarmed conviction that the countryside was a space outside Bolshevik control.
Richly rooted in archival sources, inclu...
In the summer of 1924, the Bolshevik Party called on scholars, the police, the courts, and state officials to turn their attention to the villages of Russia. The subsequent campaign to ''face the countryside'' generated a wealth of intelligence that fed into the regime''s sense of alarmed conviction that the countryside was a space outside Bolshevik control.
Richly rooted in archival sources, inclu...
