Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union

by Hornsby, Robert

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Full title :Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union / Robert Hornsby.

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Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union explores the nature of political protest in the USSR during the decade following the death of Stalin. Using sources drawn from the archives of the Soviet Procurator's office, the Communist Party, the Komsomol and elsewhere, Hornsby examines the emergence of underground groups, mass riots and public attacks on authority as well as the ways in which the Soviet regime under Khrushchev viewed and responded to these challenges, including deeper KGB penetration of society and the use of labour camps and psychiatric repression. He sheds important new light on the progress and implications of de-Stalinization, the relationship between citizens and authority and the emergence of an increasingly materialistic social order inside the USSR. This is a fascinating study which significantly revises our understanding of the nature of Soviet power following the abandonment of mass terror.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 Online-Ressource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139380867, 1139380869, 1107030927, 9781107030923, 1107521246, 9781107521247
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139380867
oclc:ocn949926110
LC Classification:DK277
Dewey Decimal:320.947085

An end to silence -- Putting out fires -- After the Hungarian rising -- Turning back the tide : the clampdown on dissent -- The anti-Soviet underground -- Taking to the streets -- Less repression, more policing -- The application of force -- A precursor to the Soviet human-rights movement.

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