Problems of the Soviet peasantry in the post-war decade in modern Russian historiography

Abstract

The study of the problem of the Soviet peasantry in the post-war decade in modern Russian historiography is being updated in the context of fundamental changes connected to the opening of access to new archival documents. Over the past decades there has been an increase in interest in the phenomenon of everyday life of Soviet people, including the peasantry, in Russian historical science. The presented wide layer of historiographic material was divided according to the problem principle: research on public sentiment, relations between the peasantry and the state, the problem of hunger and food supply, political repression against the peasantry, collective farm life, etc. The author concludes that modern Russian historiography focuses on the study of various aspects of peasant everyday life.