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By Polly Jones

ISBN-10: 0203536959

ISBN-13: 9780203536957

ISBN-10: 0415345146

ISBN-13: 9780415345149

The Khrushchev period is more and more obvious as a interval in its personal correct, and never simply as 'post-Stalinism' or a forerunner of next 'thaws' and 'reform from within'. This publication presents a accomplished heritage of reform within the interval, focusing specifically on social and cultural advancements. because the commencing of the previous Soviet records, a lot new details has turn into on hand casting mild on how some distance professional guidelines correlated with renowned perspectives. total the booklet appraises how a long way 'Destalinization' went; and no matter if advancements within the interval represented a true wish for reform, or relatively an try and enhance the Soviet method, yet on various strains.

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7 Now in the spring of 1953, newspaper readers were once more encouraged to recognize the individual’s potential for conversion. They were encouraged to view Gulag returnees not as dangerous criminals, but as reformed characters. The second claim concerned Soviet society itself. Readers were told that this massive release of prisoners was possible as a result of the ‘con- Amnesty, criminality and public response 23 solidation’ of Soviet state and society (uprochnenie obshchestvennogo i gosudarstvennogo stroia).

This threat was personified by the figure of the ‘hooligan’. By calling for greater police attention, she hinted at her own fear that a lack of vigilance was threatening the community. Other letter-writers were more belligerent, however. In contrast to the rather lachrymose tone of the first, a second letter to Molotov manifested a far more aggressive opposition to the amnesty and labelled the returnees ‘bandits’. 35 According to Antonova, the bandits had created their own mini-kingdoms within the confines of Moscow.

1; ‘Chitatel’skie razdumiia: rastet u menia syn’, Pravda, 27 February 1963, p. 4. S. Bittner, ‘Local Soviets, Public Order and Welfare After Stalin: Appeals from Moscow’s Kiev Raion’, Russian Review, vol. 62, no. 2, 2003, 281–93; C. Kelly, ‘Retreat from Dogmatism. Populism under Khrushchev and Brezhnev’, in C. Kelly, D. Shepherd (eds), Russian Cultural Studies. An Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 249–73. g. RGANI 5/34/2/47-53; RGANI 5/30/140/161-70. Reid, ‘Cold War in the kitchen’.

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