Khrushchev's cold summer : Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin / Miriam Dobson

Author: Dobson, Miriam
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Physical Description: viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents

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.

Subject(s)

Political prisoners—Rehabilitation—Soviet Union—History
Ex-convicts—Soviet Union—History
Crime—Political aspects—Soviet Union—History
Political culture—Soviet Union—History
Soviet Union—Politics and government—1953-1985
Soviet Union—Social conditions—1945-1991

ISBN

9780801447570 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801447577 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.

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