Remembering Stalin's victims :: popular memory and the end of the USSR /

In Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past....

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Kathleen E.
Körperschaft: Inter-Republic Memorial Society (Soviet Union)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Schriftenreihe:Cornell paperbacks.
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Zusammenfassung:In Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past. She also addresses the underlying question how societies emerging from repressive regimes reconcile themselves to their memories. Soviet leaders twice attempted to liberalize Communist rule and both times their initiatives hinged on criticism of Stalin. During the years of the Khrushchev "thaw" and again during Gorbachev's glasnost, antistalinism proved a unique catalyst for democratic mobilization. The battle over the Soviet past, Smith suggests, not only illuminates the dynamic between elite and mass political actors during liberalization but also reveals the scars that totalitarian rule has left on Russian society and the long-term obstacles to reform it has created
Beschreibung:Originally published 1996 by Cornell University Press.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501717956
1501717952

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