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First Name
Samantha
Last Name
Lomb
Country
Russia
State
Affiliation
Vyatka State University
Website URL
http://samanthalomb.weebly.com
Keywords
Soviet Union, Stalinism, Peasantry, Collective Farms, Constitution, Rural life
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About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Vyatka State University in Kirov, Russia, where I have been teaching since 2012. I completed my PhD in History at the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. My research focuses on the Stalinist 1930’s. I am currently conducting research for a future book manuscript on daily life on the collective farms and the day-to-day relationships between collective farmers and local officials. English-language studies of collective farms in the USSR focus overwhelmingly on the initial campaign to collectivize agriculture rather than how collective farms actually functioned and the extent to which collective farmers were able to influence a variety of policies and practices.

My first publication, “Personal and Political: A Microhistory of the “Red Column” Collective Farm, 1935-36,” was published in January 2016 in The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies.  In addition to this monograph, my book  Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution was published in November 2017 by Routledge press.  The book uses a regional focus to examine the discourse between the central state leadership and citizens about the new Soviet social contract, the 1936 Soviet Constitution.

I am also a host for the New Books Networks’ New Books on Russian and Eurasian Studies channel, where I interview authors about their work, giving them a chance to explain their research and promote their book for a general audience.

Recent Publications

Moscow is Far Away: Peasant Communal Traditions
in the Expulsion of Collective Farm Members in the Vyatka–Kirov Region 1932–1939, Europe-Asia Studies, 2021

Review of Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, by Aaron Hale-Dorrell, The English Historical Review, 2020

Review of Daniel Stotland, ‘Purity and Compromise in the Soviet Party-State: The Struggle for the Soul of the Party, 1941-1952,’ The Russian Review, (vol. 77: October 2018), pp. 672–674

Review of The Experiment. Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918–1921, Europe-Asia Studies (vol.70/7) August 2018, pp. 1174-1175

Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution ( Routledge 2017)

Принципы Конститционализма при Сталине и Создание Проекта Конституции 1936 Года- The Principles of Stalinist Constitutionalism and the Creation of the 1936 Draft  Constitution, (September 2017)

Создание Проекта Конституции СССР 1936 Года и Определение Гражданство в СССР в 1936 Года – The Drafting of the 1936 Stalinist Constitution and the Determination of Soviet Citizenship, (October 2017)

Гражданская Права в Проекте Конституции 1936 Года- Citizens Rights in the Draft 1936 Constitution, (October 2017)

Personal and Political: A Microhistory of the “Red Column” Collective Farm, 1935-36,The Carl Beck Papers (number 2404), 2016 

Media Coverage
New Books Network Author Interview- December 22, 2017, Interview with Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog - April 16, 2018, Russia Today interview June 17, 2018 about the discussion of the Stalinist Constitution, Roundtable on Sean's Russia Blog on The C
Country Focus
Russia and the USSR
Expertise by Geography
Eastern Europe
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Government, Law, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Rebellion & Revolution