Dissent in the Years of Krushchev: Nine Stories about Disobedient RussiansThe book is an analysis of the dilemmas confronting the communist party after Stalin's death in 1953. It focuses on how ordinary citizens received and reacted to the policy of the party and the state. It is also the history of people who, driven by disillusion, despair and anger, either withdrew from the public sphere and thus demonstrated passive resistance to the regime or, on the contrary, chose to demonstrate actively in prisoners' rebellions and workers' unrest. |
Contents
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1 The Closed Letter | 16 |
2 The Church and the State | 35 |
3 Give us Decent Homes | 41 |
4 Economic Disobedience | 52 |
5 The 1961 Party Programme | 74 |
6 Expulsions from the Party | 84 |
7 A Scientist Speaks Out | 99 |
8 Uprisings in the Camps | 106 |
9 Mass Unrest | 123 |
Conclusion | 155 |
Notes | 160 |
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Dissent in the Years of Krushchev: Nine Stories about Disobedient Russians E. Kulavig No preview available - 2002 |
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