The Transformation of Civil Society - 9780228016915

The Transformation of Civil SocietyAn Oral History of Ukrainian Peasant Culture, 1920s to 1930s\nAuthor(s): William Noll, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228016915, 978-0228016915\nSynopsis\nThe catastrophic terror Soviet power unleashed on the Ukrainian countryside in the early 1930s altered every aspect of village life. \n\nBased on extensive interviews with villagers throughout Ukraine, The Transformation of Civil Society provides an oral history of the material and cultural destruction sustained in rural Ukraine throughout the Stalinist era. Beginning with wholesale deportations and evictions, followed by the process of collectivization in Ukraine, the Soviet states impact on peasant life extended deep into the fabric of society. Targeting the cultural life of these Ukrainians, the 1930s began with the physical repression of religious institutions and personnel, .