Protest Reform And Repression In Khrushchevs Soviet Union

Author : Rob Hornsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030927
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union written by Rob Hornsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hornsby draws on a range of declassified archival material to analyse political protest and government repression in post-Stalin USSR.

Author : Rob Hornsby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107314641
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union written by Rob Hornsby and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hornsby draws on a range of declassified archival material to analyse political protest and government repression in post-Stalin USSR.

Author : Robert Hornsby
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300275064
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Sixties written by Robert Hornsby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period, showing that, even as living standards rose, aspects of earlier days endured. Censorship and policing remained tight, and massacres during protests in Tbilisi and Novocherkassk, alongside invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, showed the limits of reform. The rivalry with the United States reached perhaps its most volatile point, friendship with China turned to bitter enmity, and global decolonization opened up new horizons for the USSR in the developing world. These tumultuous years transformed the lives of Soviet citizens and helped reshape the wider world.

Author : Robert Hornsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107311330
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union written by Robert Hornsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union explores the nature of political protest in the USSR during the decade following the death of Stalin. Using sources drawn from the archives of the Soviet Procurator's office, the Communist Party, the Komsomol and elsewhere, Hornsby examines the emergence of underground groups, mass riots and public attacks on authority as well as the ways in which the Soviet regime under Khrushchev viewed and responded to these challenges, including deeper KGB penetration of society and the use of labour camps and psychiatric repression. He sheds important new light on the progress and implications of de-Stalinization, the relationship between citizens and authority and the emergence of an increasingly materialistic social order inside the USSR. This is a fascinating study which significantly revises our understanding of the nature of Soviet power following the abandonment of mass terror.

Author : Simon Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681772663
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1956 written by Simon Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vibrantly and perceptively told, this is the story of one remarkable year—a vivid history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world. 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets and city squares, and took up arms in an attempt to win their freedom. In this dramatic, page-turning history, Simon Hall takes the long view of the year's events—putting them in their post-war context and looking toward their influence on the counterculture movements of the 1960s—to tell the story of the year's epic, global struggles from the point of view of the freedom fighters, dissidents, and countless ordinary people who worked to overturn oppressive and authoritarian systems in order to build a brave new world. It was an epic contest. 1956 is the first narrative history of the year as a whole—and the first to frame its tumultuous events as part of an interconnected, global story of revolution.

Author : Immo Rebitschek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487544316
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev written by Immo Rebitschek and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Soviet Union control the behaviour of its people? How did the people themselves engage with the official rules and the threat of violence in their lives? In this book, the contributors examine how social control developed under Stalin and Khrushchev. Drawing on deep archival research from across the former Soviet Union, they analyse the wide network of state institutions that were used for regulating individual behaviour and how Soviet citizens interacted with them. Together they show that social control in the Soviet Union was not entirely about the monolithic state imposing its vision with violent force. Instead, a wide range of institutions such as the police, the justice system, and party-sponsored structures in factories and farms tried to enforce control. The book highlights how the state leadership itself adjusted its policing strategies and moved away from mass repression towards legal pressure for policing society. Ultimately, Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev explores how the Soviet state controlled the behaviour of its citizens and how the people relied on these structures.

Author : Geoffrey Swain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137335513
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev written by Geoffrey Swain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, approachable introduction to Khrushchev explores the innovative theme of Khrushchev as reformer, arguing that the 'bumbling' nature of those reforms only partly reflected Khrushchev's uncertainty about how to act. Swain provides a cogent account of Khrushchev's political career and of his wider role in Soviet and world politics.

Author : Maria Rogacheva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107196361
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev written by Maria Rogacheva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.

Author : Mirjam Galley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000335445
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union written by Mirjam Galley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines, through a detailed study of Soviet residential childcare homes and boarding schools, the much wider issues of Soviet policies towards deviance, social norms, repression, and social control. It reveals how through targeting children whose parents could not or did not take care of them, as well as children with disabilities, the system disproportionately involved children from socially marginal and poor families. It highlights how the system aimed to raise these children from the margins of society and transform them into healthy, happy, useful Soviet citizens, imbued with socialist values. The book also outlines how the system fitted in to Khrushchev’s reforms and social order policies, where the emphasis was on monitoring and controlling society without the recourse to direct repression and terror, and how continuity with this period was maintained even as the rest of Soviet society changed significantly.

Author : Maria Rogacheva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108171338
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev written by Maria Rogacheva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Rogacheva traces the history of this scientific community from its creation in 1956 through the Brezhnev period to paint a nuanced portrait of the living conditions, political outlook, and mentality of the local scientific intelligentsia. Utilizing new archival materials and an extensive oral history project, this book argues that Soviet scientists were not merely bought off by the Soviet state, but that they bought into the idealism and social optimism of the post-Stalin regime. Many shared the regime's belief in the progressive development of Soviet society on a scientific basis, and embraced their increased autonomy, material privileges and elite status.