TY - BOOK AU - Dobson,Miriam TI - Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin SN - 9780801458514 AV - HV8964.S65 U1 - 947.085/2 PY - 2009/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Political prisoners -- Rehabilitation -- Soviet Union -- History KW - Ex-convicts -- Soviet Union -- History KW - Crime -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History KW - Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History KW - Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985 KW - Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138048 ER -