Lynne Viola
Lynne Viola | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 (age 70–71) |
| 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 (born 1955) 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]- 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 (co-editor). 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.
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.
Categories:
- 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
- Academic staff of the University of Toronto
- 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
- Writers from Essex County, New Jersey