Russian Peasant Women's Resistance Against the State during the Antireligious Campaigns of 1928-1932
Description:
This study seeks to explore the role of peasant women in resistance to the antireligious campaigns during collectivization and analyze how the interplay of the state and resistors formed a new culture of religion in the countryside. I argue that while the state’s succeeded in controlling most of the public sphere, peasant women, engaging in subversive activities and exploiting the state’s ideology, succeeded in preserving a strong peasant adherence to religion prior to World War II. It was peas…
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Date:
May 2016
Creator:
Millier, Callie Anne