De-Stalinising Eastern Europe : the rehabilitation of Stalin's victims after 1953 / edited by Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe.

"After Stalin's death in 1953, his successors, most notably Nikita Khrushchev, initiated a series of reforms which had an enormous impact on the future direction not only of the Soviet Union, but of the communist states of Eastern Europe. Among other things, de-Stalinisation meant the rele...

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Other Authors: McDermott, Kevin, 1957- (Editor), Stibbe, Matthew (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. De-Stalinising Eastern Europe : The Dilemmas of Rehabilitation / Matthew Stibbe and Kevin McDermott
  • 2. Rehabilitation in the Soviet Union, 1953-1964 : A Policy Unachieved / Marc Elie
  • 3. De-Stalinisation in Hungary from a Gendered Perspective : The Case of Júlia Rajk / Andrea Peto
  • 4. The Release and Rehabilitation of Victims of Stalinist Terror in Poland / Piotr Kladoczny
  • 5. The Limits of Rehabilitation : The 1930s Stalinist Terror and its Legacy in post-1953 East Germany / Matthew Stibbe
  • 6. The Rehabilitation Process in Czechoslovakia : Party and Popular Responses / Kevin McDermott and Klára Pinerová
  • 7. Rehabilitation in Romania : The Case of Lucretiu Patrascanu / Calin Goina
  • 8. De-Stalinisation and Political Rehabilitations in Bulgaria / Jordan Baev
  • 9. The Rehabilitation of Stalin's Victims in Ukraine, 1953-64 : A Socio-Legal Perspective / Oleg Bazhan
  • 10. The Fate of Stalinist Victims in Moldavia after 1953 : Amnesty, Pardon and the Long Road to Rehabilitation / Igor Casu
  • 11. Latvian Deportees of the 1940s : Their Release and Rehabilitation / Irena Saleniece
  • 12. The Amnesty and Rehabilitation of Victims of Stalinist Repression in Belarus / Iryna Ramanava
  • Afterword: Stalinist Rehabilitation in a Pan-European Perspective / Miriam Dobson.