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Myth, memory, trauma : rethinking the Stalinist past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70 / Polly Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Polly, 1975-
- Series:
- Eurasia past and present
- Eurasia Past and Present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953--Cult.
- Stalin, Joseph.
- Political rehabilitation--Soviet Union.
- Political rehabilitation.
- Collective memory--Soviet Union.
- Collective memory.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union--Attitudes.
- Political persecution.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union--Historiography.
- Terror in literature.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 362 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynamic field of memory studies, this book represents the first sustained comparison of this process with other countries' attempts to rethink their own difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Secret Speech
- From thaw to freeze: party history and Soviet literature, 1956-57
- Forgetting within limits: censorship and preservation of the Stalin cult
- Trauma and redemption: narratives of 1937 in Soviet culture
- Between myth and memory: war, terror, and Stalin in popular memory
- The "cult of personality" in the early Brezhnev era
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-18721-1
- OCLC:
- 856021411
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