Khrushchev's cold summer : Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin

Publication Data

• Title Khrushchev's cold summer : Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin
• Author Miriam Dobson
• Publisher Cornell University Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Ithaca, N.Y.
• Language English

Contents

1953 : "the most painful year"
Prisoners and the art of petitioning, 1953-1956
Heroes, enemies, and the secret speech
Returnees, crime, and the gulag subculture
The redemptive mission
A return to weeding
1961 : clearing a path to the future
Literary hooligans and parasites.

Topics

• Political prisoners :: Rehabilitation :: Soviet Union :: History
• Ex-convicts :: Soviet Union :: History
• Crime :: Political aspects :: Soviet Union :: History
• Political culture :: Soviet Union :: History
• Soviet Union :: Politics and government :: 1953-1985
• Soviet Union :: Social conditions :: 1945-1991
• Soviet Union

Khrushchev's cold summer : Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin by Miriam Dobson. ISBN 9780801447570. Published by Cornell University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.