Stalinism and the Peasantry: A Socio-Cultural Analysis
The Stalinist state tried to attain social support of its goals by the integration of an individual in the structure of its activities. Finally, the system of the state's relations with the greatest part of the population which arose in the 1930's gave a certain stability to the Soviet political regime. The trial by war confirmed this fragile unity of the state and society which could not last long. Powerful pressure of the Stalin's state upon the peasantry caused irreversible consequences: massive outcome of rural dwellers to cities and the change of their social nature.