title: Lynne Viola
text: # 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.
  
  ## 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
  * 2017, Stalinist perpetrators on trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
  