Moscow 1956 - The Silenced Spring

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen E. Smith is Teaching Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Klappentext In 1956 Khrushchev stunned Communists by reciting a litany of Stalin's abuses. His bid to rejuvenate the Party opened the door to upheaval, as Soviet citizens asked where the system had gone astray. Kathleen Smith contends that the year's brief thaw set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union's collapse. Zusammenfassung In 1956 Khrushchev stunned Communists by reciting a litany of Stalin’s abuses. His bid to rejuvenate the Party opened the door to upheaval, as Soviet citizens asked where the system had gone astray. Kathleen Smith contends that the year’s brief thaw set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union’s collapse.

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• Authors: Smith, Kathleen E Smith, Kathleen E. Smith, Smith Kathleen E.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780674972001
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97200-1
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History and Archaeology, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Russia / General