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The Gulag survivor : beyond the Soviet system /

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Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adler, Nanci (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2002]
Subjects:
Political prisoners > Rehabilitation > Soviet Union.
Political prisoners > Rehabilitation > Former Soviet republics.
Political persecution > Soviet Union > Psychological aspects.
Internment camps > Soviet Union.
Répression politique > URSS > Aspect psychologique.
Camps d'internement > URSS.
15.70 history of Europe.
Internment camps.
Political persecution > Psychological aspects.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics.
Politieke gevangenen.
Rehabilitatie.
Terreur.
Strafkampen.
Réhabilitation politique > URSS.
Réhabilitation politique > Russie.
Survivants des camps de concentration > URSS.
Survivants des camps de concentration > Russie.
Table of Contents:
  • Defining the parameters
  • The first return: between liberation and liberalization, 1947-1953
  • The system's adaptation to repression, 1953-1955
  • The impact of repression on readaptation
  • The politics of readaptation and resocialization procedures: policy and practice before and after the XX Party Congress
  • The effect of repression and readaptation on both the returnees and the political system
  • The victims strike again: the reemergence of returnees in the eighties and nineties.