Rural Russia on the Edges of Authority: Bezvlastie in Wartime Riazan', November-December 1941.

The article focuses on collaboration of Russian citizens in Riazan and the town of Mikhailov in 1941 with German occupiers and how the rural Russian population showed little loyalty to either Russian or German powers. It comments on anti-Soviet sentiments among peasants driven partly by conscription of Russian youth and the reduction of the mandatory service age from 21 to 19. It talks about the privatization of property and grain after the Soviets fled the region and collaboration with Germans.