| Titre | Stalin and the Ital'ianka of 1932-1933 in the Don region* | |
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| Auteur | D'Ann R. Penner | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 39, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1998 Les années 30 - Nouvelles directions de recherche | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 27-67 | |
| Résumé anglais |
D'Ann R. Penner, Stalin and the Ital'ianka of 1932-1933 in the Don region. The Soviet government's handling of the 1932 grain crisis and the subsequent famine, which killed at least 6.7 million Soviet citizens between 1932 and 1934, decisively changed the way peasants who experienced the famine's strongest waves viewed the regime. Villagers in these areas interpreted the famine as "artificial" and deliberately "organized." The peasants' version of the famine is examined here in the Don region — the northern half of what in 1932 was known as the North Caucasus Territory. The decisions made by the Soviet Communist Party from 1928 to 1932 to push forward short-sighted, counter-productive, and unpopular plans led to a breakdown in political relations between the peasantry and the Party. The dynamics between the Party and the collective farm workers in the second and critical phase of the grain-harvesting and -collecting season escalated the grain shortage from crisis to famine. Villagers' united, effective, and determined resistance was interpreted and responded to by the Central Party as a declaration of war against the Party, the cities, and the Red Army. Although the Communist Party did not have the power to create a famine, in the black-listed areas it did abet the process whereby shortage becomes famine, thereby making famine its partner in the subjugation of the villagers. Throughout the famine-stricken regions, famine was not only tolerated by the government even in the white-listed areas, but starvation politics were used to discipline and instruct. As a result, the Party lost what remained of support from the pro-Bolshevik farming peoples of the Don and the willingness to collaborate by more neutral villagers. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1998_num_39_1_2512 |
