Lynne Viola is a scholar on the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

. She is a professor at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

and has written four books and 30 articles.

Early life

Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, she graduated from

Nutley High School Nutley High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Township of Nutley, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Nutley Public Sch ...

in 1973. Viola graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

in 1978 and received a Ph.D. from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

in 1984.

Awards and honours

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.

Publications

* 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'' * 2012, ''Stalinist perpetrators on trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Viola, Lynne 1958 births Living people Canadian women non-fiction writers Barnard College alumni Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Nutley High School alumni People from Nutley, New Jersey Princeton University alumni University of Toronto faculty Canadian women historians 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Historians of Russia Historians of communism Historians of the Soviet Union