Khrushchev's Cold Summer : Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801458514
- 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
- 947.085/2
- HV8964.S65
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Re-imagining the Soviet World after Stalin, 1953-1956 -- 1. 1953: "The Most Painful Year" -- 2. Prisoners and the Art of Petitioning, 1953-1956 -- 3. Heroes, Enemies, and the Secret Speech -- Part II. Stalin's Outcasts Return: Moral Panic and the Cult of Criminality -- 4. Returnees, Crime, and the Gulag Subculture -- 5. The Redemptive Mission -- 6. A Return to Weeding -- Part III. A Fragile Solution? From the Twenty-Second Party Congress to Khrushchev's Ouster -- 7. 1961: Clearing a Path to the Future -- 8. Literary Hooligans and Parasites -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
"This outstanding book examines the return of prisoners from the Gulag in the Soviet Union during the first decade after the death of Stalin."--Choice.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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