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The many lives of Khrushchev's thaw : experience and memory in Moscow's Arbat / Stephen V. Bittner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bittner, Stephen V., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arbat (Moscow, Russia)--Intellectual life.
- Arbat (Moscow, Russia) -- Intellectual life.
- Moscow (Russia)--Intellectual life.
- Moscow (Russia) -- Intellectual life.
- Soviet Union--Intellectual life--1917-1970.
- Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970.
- Soviet Union--History--1953-1985.
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985.
- Soviet Union--History.
- Soviet Union -- History.
- Arbat (Moscow, Russia).
- Moscow (Russia).
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bittner explores how the neighborhood changed during the period of ideological relaxation under Khrushchev that came to be known as the thaw.
- Contents:
- Introduction : history of a metaphor
- History and myth of the Arbat
- A cult of personality and a "rhapsody in blue"
- Raining on Turandot
- Remembering the avant-garde
- Preserving the past, empowering the public
- Dissidence and the end of the thaw
- Conclusion : the Arbat and the thaw.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-222) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-6043-3
- OCLC:
- 726824325
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