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Moscow 1956 Hardcover - 2017

by Smith


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Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor's abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalin's infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had his report read out loud to members across the Soviet Union that spring. However, its message sparked popular demands for more information and greater freedom to debate. Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring brings this first brief season of thaw into fresh focus. Drawing on newly declassified Russian archives, Kathleen Smith offers a month-by-month reconstruction of events as the official process of de-Stalinization unfolded and political and cultural experimentation flourished. Smith looks at writers, students, scientists, former gulag prisoners, and free-thinkers who took Khrushchev's promise of liberalization seriously, testing the limits of a more open Soviet system. But when anti-Stalin sentiment morphed into calls for democratic reform and eventually erupted in dissent within the Soviet bloc--notably in the Hungarian uprising--the Party balked and attacked critics. Yet Khrushchev had irreversibly opened his compatriots' eyes to the flaws of monopolistic rule. Citizens took the Secret Speech as inspiration and permission to opine on how to restore justice and build a better society, and the new crackdown only reinforced their discontent. The events of 1956 set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.

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  • Title Moscow 1956
  • Author Smith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard, Cambridge
  • Date 2017-04-17
  • ISBN 9780674972001 / 0674972007
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Soviet Union - Politics and government -, Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016046251
  • Dewey Decimal Code 947.085

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  • Library Journal, 03/15/2017, Page 128
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