| Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921-1930 Subjects: Riazan’ Region (Riazanskaia oblast’ Russia) -- History; Riazan’ Region (Riazanskaia oblast’ Russia) -- Politics and government; Soviet Union -- Rural conditions -- History; Peasants -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; Soviet Union -- History --; Richly rooted in archival sources, including local and central-level secret police reports, detailed cases of the local and provincial courts, government records, and newspaper reports, Face to the Village is a nuanced study of the everyday workings of the Russian village in the 1920s. McDonald Tracy : Tracy McDonald is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. |