Russia after the war : hopes, illusions, and disappointments, 1945-1957
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Russia after the war : hopes, illusions, and disappointments, 1945-1957
(The New Russian history)
M. E. Sharpe, c1998
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-229) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The years of late Stalinism are one of the murkiest periods in Soviet history, best known to us through the voices of Ehrenburg, Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn. This is a sweeping history of Russia from the end of the war to the Thaw by one of Russia's respected younger historians. Drawing on the resources of newly opened archives as well as the recent outpouring of published diaries and memoirs, Elena Zubkova presents a richly detailed portrayal of the basic conditions of people's lives in Soviet Russia from 1945 to 1957. She brings out the dynamics of postwar popular expectations and the cultural stirrings set in motion by the wartime experience versus the regime's determination to reassert command over territories and populations and the mechanisms of repression. Her interpretation of the period establishes the context for the liberalizing and reformist impulses that surfaced in the post-Stalin succession struggle, characterizing what would be the formative period for a future generation of leaders: Gorbachev, Yeltsin and their contemporaries.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 Strategies of Survival
- Chapter 1 The Social Psychology of the War
- Chapter 2 The Victory and the Victors
- Chapter 3 "How to Live After the War?": The Conflict of Expectation and Reality
- Chapter 4 The Hungry Years: The Famine of 1946-1947
- Chapter 5 The Currency Reform of 1947: The Views from Above and Below
- Part 2 The Illusion of Liberalization
- Chapter 6 The State and the Peasant: Village Antagonism to the Collective Farm
- Chapter 7 Religion and Politics: The Revival of Religions Belief
- Chapter 8 The Political Temper of the Masses, 1945-1948
- Chapter 9 "Something Must Be Done": The Intelligentsia and the Intellectual Mavericks
- Part 3 Repression
- Chapter 10 "The Situation Doesn't Change": The Crisis of Postwar Expectations
- Chapter 11 The Birth of the Anti-Stalinist Youth Movement
- Chapter 12 The Struggle with Dissent
- Chapter 13 The Wave of Repression, 1949-1953
- Chapter 14 The Evolution of Public Opinion: "Whose Fault Is It?"
- Part 4 The Thaw
- Chapter 15 Without Stalin: The New Public Atmosphere
- Chapter 16 The Repudiation of the GULAG
- Chapter 17 Turning to the Individual: The Paths from Above and Below
- Chapter 18 The Decision on the Cult of Personality and Its Social Impact
- Chapter 19 Public Opinion and the "Hungarian Syndrome"
- con Conclusion
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