The dilemmas of de-Stalinization : negotiating cultural and social change in the Khrushchev era / edited by Polly Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Polly.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 23.

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.

Soviet Union.

Politics and government.

Soviet Union--Civilization.

Civilization.

Soviet Union--Social conditions--1945-1991.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

The Khrushchev era is increasingly seen as a period in its own right, and not just as "post-Stalinism" or a forerunner of subsequent "thaws" and "reform from within." This book provides a comprehensive history of reform in the period, focusing especially on social and cultural developments, about which a great deal of information has become available since the opening of the former Soviet archives, and which cast much light on how far official policies correlated with popular views. Overall the book appraises how far "Destalinisation" went; and whether developments in the period represented a real desire for reform, or rather an attempt to fortify the Soviet system, but on different lines.

Contents:

Introduction: the dilemmas of de-Stalinization / Polly Jones 1

Part I Responses to the Thaw(s): de-Stalinization and public opinion 19

1 'Show the bandit-enemies no mercy!': amnesty, criminality and public response in 1953 / Miriam Dobson 21

2 From the Secret Speech to the burial of Stalin: real and ideal responses to de-Stalinization / Polly Jones 41

3 'Democracy' or 'despotism'? How the Secret Speech was translated into everyday life / Susanne Schattenberg 64

4 Naming the social evil: the readers of Novyi mir and Vladimir Dudintsev's Not by Bread Alone, 1956-59 and beyond / Denis Kozlov 80

Part II Forging old/new identities: de-Stalinizing the Stalinist self 99

5 Forging citizenship on the home front: reviving the socialist contract and constructing Soviet identity during the Thaw / Christine Varga-Harris 101

6 De-Stalinizing Soviet childhood: the quest for moral rebirth, 1953-58 / Ann Livschiz 117

7 The arrival of spring? Changes and continuities in Soviet youth culture and policy between Stalin and Khrushchev / Juliane Furst 135

8 From mobilized to free labour: de-Stalinization and the changing legal status of workers / Donald Filtzer 154

Part III Rewriting Stalinism: in search of a new style 171

9 Thaws and freezes in Soviet historiography, 1953-64 / Roger D. Markwick 173

10 The need for new voices: Writers' Union policy towards young writers 1953-64 / Emily Lygo 193

11 Modernizing Socialist Realism in the Khrushchev Thaw: the struggle for a 'Contemporary Style' in Soviet art / Susan E. Reid 209

12 'Russia is reading us once more': the rehabilitation of poetry, 1953-64 / Katharine Hodgson 231

13 Renouncing dogma, teaching utopia: science in schools under Khrushchev / Michael Froggatt 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-275) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0415345146

OCLC:

57475826