 | Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1941 Subjects: Working class -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century; Urbanization -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century; Moscow (Russia) -- Population -- History -- 20th century; Rural-urban migration -- Russia (Federation) --; During the 1930's, 23 million peasants left their villages and moved to Soviet cities, where they comprised almost half the urban population and more than half the nation's industrial workers. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials... David L. Hoffmann is Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941 , also from Cornell. |
