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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2013
      February 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139380867
      9781107030923
      9781107521247
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139380867
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 324 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 324 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
      Series:
      New Studies in European History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
    Series:
    New Studies in European History
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    Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union explores the nature of political protest in the USSR during the decade following the death of Stalin. Using sources drawn from the archives of the Soviet Procurator's office, the Communist Party, the Komsomol and elsewhere, Hornsby examines the emergence of underground groups, mass riots and public attacks on authority as well as the ways in which the Soviet regime under Khrushchev viewed and responded to these challenges, including deeper KGB penetration of society and the use of labour camps and psychiatric repression. He sheds important new light on the progress and implications of de-Stalinization, the relationship between citizens and authority and the emergence of an increasingly materialistic social order inside the USSR. This is a fascinating study which significantly revises our understanding of the nature of Soviet power following the abandonment of mass terror.

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    'Hornsby argues that dissent during the Khrushchev period was more varied and widespread than customary depictions indicate … using archival sources, he contends convincingly that the Soviet leader's primary goal was to maintain political stability without using terror, not to establish greater political freedom.'

    K. D. Slepyan Source: Choice

    'Hornsby's book is a very well researched, richly detailed and elegantly written synthesis of dissent and popular protest under Khrushchev.'

    Source: H-Soz-u-Kult

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