Lynne Viola | |
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| Born | 1955 |
| Occupation | University professor |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Barnard College (1978) Princeton University (1984) |
| Period | 20th century |
| Subject | Russian history |
| Notable awards | Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize |
Lynne Viola is a scholar on the Soviet Union. She is a professor at the University of Toronto and has written four books and 30 articles.
Early life[edit]
Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, she graduated from Nutley High School in 1973.[1]
Viola graduated from Barnard College in 1978 and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984.
Awards and honours[edit]
In 2014, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize.[2] In 2019, she was awarded a Killam Prize.[3]
Publications[edit]
- 1987, The best sons of the fatherland: Workers in the vanguard of Soviet collectivization
- 1996, Peasant rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the culture of peasant resistance
- 2002, Contending with Stalinism: Soviet power and popular resistance in the 1930s
- 2007, The unknown gulag: The lost world of Stalin's special settlements
- 2008, The war against the peasantry, 1927–1930: the tragedy of the Soviet countryside
- 2017, Stalinist perpetrators on trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
References[edit]
- ^ 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee, Lynne Viola, Nutley Hall of Fame. Accessed November 9, 2019. "Dr. Lynne Viola, a specialist in twentieth century Russian history who speaks Russian fluently, is a 1973 graduate of Nutley High School."
- ^ Education News Canada website. "U of T's Lynne Viola, one of world's leading scholars on the Soviet Union, wins prestigious Molson Prize", 21 June 2018. Accessed 11 September 2018.
- ^ "U of T researchers awarded Killam Prizes for contributions to humanities, health sciences". University of Toronto News. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
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