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ISBN 10: 0415673852
ISBN 13: 9780415673853
Author: Melanie Ilic, Jeremy Smith
This book examines the social and cultural impact of the ‘thaw’ in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. It highlights the fact that many of the reform initiatives generally associated with Khrushchev personally, and with his period of office more generally, often had their roots in the Stalin period both in their content and in the ways in which they were implemented. Individual case studies explore key aspects of Khrushchev’s period of office, including the introduction of the 1961 Communist Party Programme and popular responses to it, housing policy, the opening up of the Soviet Union to the West during the 1957 youth festival, public consultation campaigns and policy implementation in education and family law, the boost given to voluntary organisations such as women’s councils and the trade unions, the reshaping of the internal Soviet security apparatus, the emergence of political dissent and the nature of civil-military relations as reflected in the events of the workers’ uprising in Novocherkassk in 1962. The findings offer an important new perspective on the Khrushchev era.
Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev BASEES Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies 1st Table of contents:
1 The 1961 Party Programme and the fate of Khrushchev’s reforms
2 Khrushchev’s promise to eliminate the urban housing shortage: rights, rationality and the communist future
3 The 1957 Moscow Youth Festival: propagating a new, peaceful image of the Soviet Union
4 The scientist, the pedagogue and the Party official: interest groups, public opinion and decision-making in the 1958 education reform
5 Lone mothers and fatherless children: public discourse on marriage and family law
6 What did women want? Khrushchev and the revival of the zhensovety
7. Dismantling Stalin’s fortress: Soviet trade unions in the Khrushchev era
8. The changing face of repression under Khrushchev JULIE ELKNER
9. Voicing discontent: political dissent from the Secret Speech to Khrushchev’s ouster
10. The Soviet military at Novocherkassk: the apex of military professionalism in the Khrushchev era?
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