The Khrushchev Era, 1953-1964History and politics students alike will welcome this new Seminar Study which analyses the Khrushchev era -- a critical period of Soviet and world history. It was Khrushchev who, in 1957, finally filled the political vacuum left by the death of Stalin in 1953. He was an erratic, impulsive, inspirational and innovative leader who addressed the fundamental problems of the country - and yet he was, Martin McCauley argues, "a brilliant failure''. In this study the author explores all aspects of the Khrushchev era: including reforms in agriculture, economic policy, crises in Eastern Europe, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, de-Stalinisation and Khrushchev's attempts to reform the Communist Party. |
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... INTELLIGENTSIA Writers and other intellectuals began demanding greater freedom and the punishment of those who had repressed them . Innovative works appeared , and Ilya Ehrenburg's novel The Thaw symbolises the period . There was a ...
... intelligentsia had become among students in higher education . One reason for this was that under legislation introduced by Stalin , fees had to be paid for higher education and the upper forms of secondary education . This excluded all ...
... Intelligentsia parents were appalled at the prospect of their children working in factories and failing to gain a coveted place at university , a passport to an intelligentsia job . Heads of higher educational establishments saw the ...
Contents
Khrushchev in Moscow | 4 |
Rebuilding Ukraine | 11 |
DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS | 17 |
Copyright | |
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