Peasant MetropolisDuring the 1930's, 23 million peasants left their villages and moved to Soviet cities, where they comprised almost half the urban population and more than half the nation's industrial workers. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials, David L. Hoffmann shows how this massive migration to the citiesan influx unprecedented in world historyhad major consequences for the nature of the Soviet system and the character of Russian society even