Novosibirsk. Science. Siberian branch. 1983. 389 p. With the publication of a peer-reviewed fundamental work, Soviet historiography has been enriched with the first comprehensive study that recreates the history of the multinational peasantry of Siberia during the entire transition period from capitalism to socialism. The work, written by a team of agricultural historians of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1, is the third volume of the five-volume publication "History of the Peasantry of Siberia". The novelty of the work lies in the fact that it reflects in a concentrated form the opre -- 1 Authors ' team: V. T. Agalakov, B. B. Batuev, L. I. Bozhenko, A. G. Borzenkov, A.V. Gagarin, L. M. Goryushkin, E. G. Grigorieva, N. Ya. Gushchin, V. I. Dudukalov, Yu. V. Zhurov, V. A. Zibarev, B. V. Ivanov, I. S. Kuznetsov, Yu. V. Kupert Osokina, T. N. Ostashko, M. M. Petrukhina, M. E. Plotnikova, P. K. Redkin, G. L. Sanzhiev, V. L. Soskin, A. N. Soskina, and V. I. Shishkin. Editorial Board of the volume: N. Ya. Gushchin (ed.), L. I. Bozhenko, L. G. Garipova (ed.), L. M. Goryushkin, V. A. Demidov, Yu. V. Zhurov, I. S. Kuznetsov, Yu. V. Kupert, A. S. Moskovsky, M. E. Plotnikova, G. L. Sanzhiev, V. L. Soskin, V. I. Shishkin (Deputy Editor-in-chief). page 110 a definite turn in the direction of an in-depth study of the social problems of the Soviet countryside, outlined in modern historiography. In this process, the book of Siberian historians took a significant place: It not only absorbed the positive results of the previous decade's research, but also opened a new stage in the study of the history of the Soviet peasantry. The author's team developed a concept of the history of the Soviet peasantry of the Siberian region, which is huge in scale and complex in the intensity of the class struggle, in the social and national composition of the population. The structure of the work, which is distinguished by its logical coherence and allows us to fully reveal ... Читать далее