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

Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus inclu...

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Autor principal: Dobson, Miriam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1953 : "the most painful year"
  • Prisoners and the art of petitioning, 1953-1956
  • Heroes, enemies, and the secret speech
  • Returnees, crime, and the gulag subculture
  • The redemptive mission
  • A return to weeding
  • 1961 : clearing a path to the future
  • Literary hooligans and parasites.