Khrushchev's Cold Summer
Title | Khrushchev's Cold Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Dobson |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2011-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080145851X |
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 included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold Summer Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin's terror. Confusion and disorientation undermined the regime's efforts at recovery. In the wake of Stalin's death, ordinary citizens and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the country's recent bloody past and to cope with the complex social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within the brutal camp system. Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade. Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners. At the same time, she explores Soviet society's contradictory responses to the returnees and shows that for many the immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air after the long Stalinist winter.
Khrushchev's Cold Summer
Title | Khrushchev's Cold Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Dobson |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2011-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801457270 |
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 included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold Summer Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin's terror. Confusion and disorientation undermined the regime's efforts at recovery. In the wake of Stalin's death, ordinary citizens and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the country's recent bloody past and to cope with the complex social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within the brutal camp system. Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade. Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners. At the same time, she explores Soviet society's contradictory responses to the returnees and shows that for many the immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air after the long Stalinist winter.
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
Title | Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandr Fursenko |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 668 |
Release | 2010-10-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393078337 |
“Contains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time.”—The Economist This acclaimed study from the authors of “One Hell of a Gamble” brings to life head-to-head confrontations between the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Drawing on their unrivaled access to Politburo and KGB materials, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali combine new insights into the Cuban missile crisis as well as startling narratives of the contests for Suez, Iraq, Berlin, and Southeast Asia, with vivid portraits of leaders who challenged Moscow and Washington. Khrushchev’s Cold War provides a gripping history of the crisis years of the Cold War.
Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era
Title | Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era PDF eBook |
Author | Balázs Szalontai |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804753227 |
Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. The authors principal new source is the Hungarian diplomatic archives, which contain extensive reporting on Kim Il Sung and North Korea, thoroughly informed by research on the period in the Soviet and Eastern European archives and by recently published scholarship. Much of the story surrounds Kim Il Sung: his Korean nationalism and eagerness for Korean autarky; his efforts to balance the need for foreign aid and his hope for an independent foreign policy; and what seems to be his good sense of timing in doing in internal rivals without attracting Soviet retaliation. Through a series of comparisons not only with the USSR but also with Albania, Romania, Yugoslavia, China, and Vietnam, the author highlights unique features of North Korean communism during the period. Szalontai covers ongoing effects of Japanese colonization, the experiences of diverse Korean factions during World War II, and the weakness of the Communist Party in South Korea.
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Title | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era PDF eBook |
Author | William Taubman |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 929 |
Release | 2004-03-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0393324842 |
Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.
Khrushchev's Cold War
Title | Khrushchev's Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | A. A. Fursenko |
Publisher | |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Cold War |
ISBN |
The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis
Title | The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n |
Publisher | Cold War International History |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804762014 |
300 pages of documents include: telegrams, memoranda of conversations, instructions to diplomats, etc.