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Khrushchev's cold summer : Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin / Miriam Dobson.

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Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus inclu...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Dobson, Miriam (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Political prisoners > Rehabilitation > Soviet Union > History.
Ex-convicts > Soviet Union > History.
Crime > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Political culture > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1945-1991.
Crime > Political aspects.
Ex-convicts.
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Soviet Union.
Electronic book.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1953 : "the most painful year"
  • Prisoners and the art of petitioning, 1953-1956
  • Heroes, enemies, and the secret speech
  • Returnees, crime, and the gulag subculture
  • The redemptive mission
  • A return to weeding
  • 1961 : clearing a path to the future
  • Literary hooligans and parasites.

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