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
Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, she graduated from Nutley High School in 1973.
[ 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."]
Viola graduated from Barnard College in 1978 and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984.
Awards and honours
In 2014, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. In 2018, she was the recipient of the
Molson Prize.
[ 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.] In 2019, she was awarded a
Killam Prize.
Publications
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The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Contending with Stalinism: Soviet power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s. Cornell University Press, 2002.
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'The War Against the Peasantry, 1927–1930: the Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside (co-editor). Yale University Press, 2005.
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The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. Oxford University Press, 2017.
