Hammer, Sickle, and Soil: The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture

Drawing on the latest scholarship and a profusion of formerly classified primary sources, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the revolution in Soviet agriculture under Stalin. In chilling detail, the author describes how the havoc and destruction wrought in the countryside sowed the seeds of failure of the entire Soviet experiment.