Lynne Viola

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.
Viola graduated from Barnard College in 1978 and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984.

In 2014, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize. In 2019, she was awarded a Killam Prize.

The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Contending with Stalinism: Soviet power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s. Cornell University Press, 2002.
'The War Against the Peasantry, 1927–1930: the Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside. Yale University Press, 2005.
The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. Oxford University Press, 2017.