Lynne Viola

Lynne Viola (born April 5, 1955 in Nutley , New Jersey ) is a historian who specializes in the social and political history of Russia and the Soviet Union . Her main interests are the history of farmers, women, political culture and the history of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.

Studies and teaching

In 1973 Lynne Viola graduated from Nutley High School . She received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1978 . In 1984 she received her PhD from Princeton University . In 2003 she received a Guggenheim grant . In 2014 she was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada . In 2018 she received a Molson Prize .

She teaches at the University of Toronto History and also teaches at the State University of New York noticed. Her research and teaching activities have been recognized with a number of awards.

The best sons of the fatherland. Workers in the vanguard of Soviet collectivization , Oxford University Press, New York [u. a.] 1987, ISBN 0-19-504134-8 .
Peasant rebels under Stalin. Collectivization and the culture of peasant resistance , Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-19-510197-9 .
Together with VP Danilov, NA Ivnitskii, and Denis Kozlov (Eds.): The War Against the Peasantry. The Tragedy of the Soviet Contryside , Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2005, ISBN 0-300-10612-2 .
The unknown gulag. The lost world of Stalin's special settlements , Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [and a.] 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-538509-0 .
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial. Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine , Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [and a.] 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-067416-8

↑ RSC Class of 2014 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Originally accessed September 13, 2016.
↑ University of Toronto: "U of T's Lynne Viola, one of world's leading scholars on the Soviet Union, wins prestigious Molson Prize" . From: www.educationnewscanada.com , (press release), June 21, 2018. Accessed September 12, 2018.