Lynne Viola is a scholar on the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. 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 whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

and has written four books and 30 articles.

Early life

Raised in

Nutley, New Jersey Nutley is a Township (New Jersey), township in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 30,143, an increase of 1,773 (+6.2%) from the 2010 United ...

, she graduated from Nutley High School in 1973. Viola graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...

in 1978 and received a Ph.D. from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in 1984.

Awards and honours

In 2014, she was inducted into the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize. In 2019, she was awarded a

Killam Prize The Killam Prize (previously the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize) was established according to the will of Dorothy J. Killam to honour the memory of her husband Izaak Walton Killam. Five Killam Prizes, each having a value of $100,000, were awa ...

Publications

* ''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 Unviersity 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

{{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 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