Background
Lewin, Moshe was born on November 6, 1921, in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). He came to the United States in 1978. He was the son of ethnic Jewish parents who died in the Holocaust (Leo J. and Fima L. (Koltunova) Lewin).
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“A most important and pioneering book—the only full-scale study of the Russian revolution and the peasant from 1917 through the first wave of mass collectivization in 1930.” —Stephen F. Cohen The collectivization of the peasants in the USSR constituted a social upheaval of a totally unprecedented nature. It was one of the most remarkable events of the present century and it has a history as long as that of Soviet power itself. The idea of a collectivized agriculture, much favoured by the leadership after the revolution, had been left in abeyance during the NEP period. Interest in the idea, and in the collective movement, revived at the time of the ‘grain crisis’ at the beginning of 1928. It was during this crisis that collectivization of the peasantry and the creation of a powerful kolkhoz and sovkhoz sector began to be taken seriously as a means of solving, at one and the same time, both the formidable problem of grain and the whole ‘accursed problem’ of relations between the Soviet authorities and the peasants.
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The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years—developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the crucial historical events and social forces that explain Glasnost and political and economic life in the Soviet Union today.
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Lewin, Moshe was born on November 6, 1921, in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). He came to the United States in 1978. He was the son of ethnic Jewish parents who died in the Holocaust (Leo J. and Fima L. (Koltunova) Lewin).
In1961 Moshe Lewin received his Bachelor of Arts from Tel Aviv University. In 1964 he earned Doctor of Philosophy, after graduating from Sorbonne, Paris.
From 1965-1966 he served as a director of studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Between 1967 and 1968 Moshe Lewin was appointed senior fellow at Columbia University, Russian Institute, New York City. He worked at University of Birmingham, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, Birmingham, England, from 1968 till 1978.
Since 1978 Mr. Lewin acted as a professor of Russian history at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. He was a fellow at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1972-1973, and Wilson Kennan Center, Washington, DC, 1976-1977. During 1981-1984 he was a member of academic council, Kennan Institute for Russian Studies, Washington, DC. Mr. Lewin spent quite a lot of time on writing books.
Moshe Lewin died August 14, 2010 in Paris.
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Author: Russian Peasant and Soviet Power, 1968, Lenin's Last Struggle, 1968, Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates, 1974, second edition, The Making of the Soviet System, 1985, The Gorbachev Phenomenon, 1988, expanded edition, 1991, Stalinism and the Roots of Reform, 1991, Russia-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics-Russia, 1995, (with Ian Kershaw) Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison, 1997.
Member American Association of University Professors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American History Association, Institute d'Etudes Slaves (Paris), The Authors' Guild, Inc.