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Khrushchev's cold summer : Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dobson, Miriam
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Political prisoners > Rehabilitation > Soviet Union > History.
Ex-convicts > Soviet Union > History.
Crime > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Political culture > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1945-1991.
Table of Contents:
  • 1953 : "the most painful year"
  • Prisoners and the art of petitioning, 1953-1956
  • Heroes, enemies, and the secret speech
  • Returnees, crime, and the gulag subculture
  • The redemptive mission
  • A return to weeding
  • 1961 : clearing a path to the future
  • Literary hooligans and parasites.