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Khrushchev's Cold Summer : Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801458514
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Khrushchev's Cold SummerDDC classification:
  • 947.085/2
LOC classification:
  • HV8964.S65
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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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