Download or read book Mobilizing Soviet Peasants written by Mary E. A. Buckley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the story of rural shock work and Stakhanovism in the Soviet countryside in the late 1930s, this book tries to contextualise Stakhanovism, considering historical context, changing party priorities, propaganda, the press, the nature of farm leaderships, shortages, peasant attitudes, gender, purges, and local organisations.