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Moscow 1956 : the silenced spring

Smith, Kathleen E., author

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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. This work brings this first brief season of thaw into fresh focus. Drawing on newly declassified Russian archives, the author offers a month-by-month reconstruction of events as the official process of de-Stalinization unfolded and political and cultural experimentation flourished.-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Subject: Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971. / Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971 Oratory. / Political rehabilitation Soviet Union. / Soviet Union Politics and government 1953-1985. / Soviet Union History 1953-1985. / Moscow (Russia) History.
• ISBN: 9780674972001

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DK277.S64 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE