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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... Stalin , transformed local government . Previously soviets had the twin function of making and implementing policy . Now policy was to be made at the top and local soviets were to implement it . At the first meeting of the USSR Supreme ...
... Supreme Soviet : top policy - making body or executive committee : chairman of this body was head of state ; of USSR ... soviet Council : basic unit of local government . sovnarkhozy Councils of the National Economy ; responsible for a ...
Contents
Khrushchev in Moscow | 4 |
Rebuilding Ukraine | 11 |
DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS | 17 |
Copyright | |
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