Soviet State And Society Under Nikita Khrushchev

Author : Melanie Ilic,Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134023622

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Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev by Melanie Ilic,Jeremy Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Jeremy Smith,Melanie Ilic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136831812

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Khrushchev in the Kremlin by Jeremy Smith,Melanie Ilic Pdf

This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including formal and informal political relationships; economic reforms and nationality relations in the national republics of the USSR; the treatment of political dissent; economic progress through technological innovation; relations with the Eastern bloc; corruption and deceit in the economy; and the reform of the railways and construction sectors. The book re-evaluates the Khrushchev era as one which represented a significant departure from the Stalin years, introducing a number of policy changes that only came to fruition later, whilst still suffering from many of the limitations imposed by the Stalinist system. Unlike many other studies which consider the subject from the perspective of the Cold War and superpower relations, this book provides an overview of the internal development of the Soviet Union in this period, locating it in the broader context of Soviet history. This is the companion volume to the Jeremy Smith and Melanie Ilic’s previous edited collection, Soviet State and Society under Nikita Khrushchev (Routledge, 2009).

Author : Melanie Ilič,Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political culture
ISBN : 0415476488

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Khrushchev in the Kremlin by Melanie Ilič,Jeremy Smith Pdf

Considers politics, economics and the process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. This book examines the complexity of government, including central government, individual ministries, regional leaders, separate institutions such as the military, and the lower levels of the Communist Party.

Author : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271028613

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev Pdf

Nikita Khrushchev&’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that &“we will bury you&” is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career, the motivation for Khrushchev&’s actions wasn&’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev&’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was &“we will bury colonialism&”). This is the second volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his story up to the close of World War II. In the first section of this second volume, he covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation of the immediate aftermath of the war to Stalin&’s death, the subsequent power struggle, and the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to Khrushchev&’s recollections and thoughts about various domestic and international problems. In the second and third sections, he recalls the virgin lands and other agricultural campaigns and his dealings with nuclear scientists and weapons designers. He also considers other sectors of the economy, specifically construction and the provision of consumer goods, administrative reform, and questions of war, peace, and disarmament. In the last section, he discusses the relations between the party leadership and the intelligentsia. Included among the Appendixes are the notebooks of Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, Khrushchev&’s wife.

Author : Fedor Burlat︠s︡kiĭ
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025239206

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Khrushchev and the First Russian Spring by Fedor Burlat︠s︡kiĭ Pdf

The road to glastnost and perestroika began with Nikita Khrushchev. It was his 1956 "secret speech" to the Twentieth Party Congress that, for the first time, publicly acknowledged the horrors of Stalinism and sparked the dismantling of the stultifying Stalin regime. One of Khrushchev's closest advisors has now written the true story of his rule. 12 pages of halftones.

Author : Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271043463

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Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei N. Khrushchev Pdf

Author : M. Ilic,S. Reid,L. Attwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230523432

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Women in the Khrushchev Era by M. Ilic,S. Reid,L. Attwood Pdf

This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources. Exploring diverse subjects including housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and consumption, the volume places the analysis of specific events or issues within a broader discussion of economic, political, ideological and international developments to provide a full analysis of the era.

Author : Stanley Rothman,George W. Breslauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081527546

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Soviet Politics and Society by Stanley Rothman,George W. Breslauer Pdf

Author : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271023325

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918-1945 by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev Pdf

Nikita Khrushchev&’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that &"we will bury you&" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career the motivation for Khrushchev&’s actions wasn&’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev&’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was &"we will bury colonialism&"). This is the first volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In this volume, Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and then Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. He vividly portrays life in Stalin's inner circle and among the generals who commanded the Soviet armies. Khrushchev&’s sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the value of this unique personal and historical document. Included among the Appendixes is Sergei Khrushchev&’s account of how the memoirs were created and smuggled abroad during his father&’s retirement.

Author : William Taubman,Sergei Khrushchev,Abbott Gleason
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300128093

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Nikita Khrushchev by William Taubman,Sergei Khrushchev,Abbott Gleason Pdf

Thanks to Soviet secrecy, little was known about former premier Khrushchev during his career or after his ousting. Since the collapse of the USSR, archives have been declassified, allowing access to his memoirs and those of witnesses.

Author : Sergei Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Heads of state
ISBN : 0271058536

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev Pdf

Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. His sincere reflections add to the value of this personal and historical document.

Author : Nikita Krushchev
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1468101005

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The Selected Works of Nikita Khrushchev by Nikita Krushchev Pdf

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894 – 1971) led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.

Author : Sergeĭ Khrushchev
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 162637032X

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Khrushchev in Power by Sergeĭ Khrushchev Pdf

A full reckoning of Nikita Khrushchev¿s accomplishments and failures cannot be complete without looking beyond his foreign policy initiatives to assess his efforts to introduce domestic policy reforms in the Soviet Union. Serge Khrushchev tells the full story of those efforts during the years immediately before his father¿s ouster¿and of the intrigues and struggles for power than went along with them. In many ways, as his son shows, the premier¿s reforms anticipated those that Deng Xiaoping successfully pursed later in China. But within only a few short years after he was forced to retire, they had been largely abandoned. Why that happened is one of the questions that Sergei Khrushchev seeks to answer in this book, as he draws on archival records, memoirs, and his own personal recollections to provide a comprehensive account of the 1961-1964 period.

Author : Alexander Werth
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000268988

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Russia Under Khrushchev by Alexander Werth Pdf

Author : Rebecca Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609092337

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State of Madness by Rebecca Reich Pdf

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.