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Dissent in the Years of Khrushchev

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Zusatztext 'The cases are well chosen and the evidence cogent...Recommended.' - A. Ezergailis! Choice Informationen zum Autor ERIK KULAVIG is Head of the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. He is co-editor of Mechanisms of Power in the Soviet Union, Soviet Civilization between Past and Present , and author of Russian Nationalism, 1986-92 and Propaganda and Everyday Life in Russia, 1924-36. Klappentext The book is an analysis of the dilemmas confronting the communist party after Stalin's death in 1953. It focuses on how ordinary citizens received and reacted to the policy of the party and the state. It is also the history of people who, driven by disillusion, despair and anger, either withdrew from the public sphere and thus demonstrated passive resistance to the regime or, on the contrary, chose to demonstrate actively in prisoners' rebellions and workers' unrest. Zusammenfassung It is also the history of people who, driven by disillusion, despair and anger, either withdrew from the public sphere and thus demonstrated passive resistance to the regime or, on the contrary, chose to demonstrate actively in prisoners' rebellions and workers' unrest. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Closed Letter The Church and the State 'Give Us Decent Homes!' Economic Disobedience The 1961 Party Program Expulsions from the Party A Scientist Speaks Out Uprisings in the Camps Mass Unrest Conclusion Bibliography

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Authors E Kulavig, E. Kulavig, Erik Kulavig
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 18.09.2002
 
EAN 9780333990377
ISBN 978-0-333-99037-7
No. of pages 192
Dimensions 145 mm x 223 mm x 15 mm
Subjects Non-fiction book

B, History, European History, Political History, History: specific events and topics, World Politics, Political science and theory, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Europe—History, Europe, Eastern—History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Soviet Union—History, communism;history;Russia

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