The Khrushchev Era 1953 1964

Author : Martin McCauley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317889212

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The Khrushchev Era 1953-1964 by Martin McCauley Pdf

History and politics students alike will welcome this new Seminar Study which analyses the Khrushchev era -- a critical period of Soviet and world history. It was Khrushchev who, in 1957, finally filled the political vacuum left by the death of Stalin in 1953. He was an erratic, impulsive, inspirational and innovative leader who addressed the fundamental problems of the country - and yet he was, Martin McCauley argues, "a brilliant failure''. In this study the author explores all aspects of the Khrushchev era: including reforms in agriculture, economic policy, crises in Eastern Europe, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, de-Stalinisation and Khrushchev's attempts to reform the Communist Party.

Author : Balázs Szalontai
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0804753229

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Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era by Balázs Szalontai Pdf

Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. The author’s principal new source is the Hungarian diplomatic archives, which contain extensive reporting on Kim Il Sung and North Korea, thoroughly informed by research on the period in the Soviet and Eastern European archives and by recently published scholarship. Much of the story surrounds Kim Il Sung: his Korean nationalism and eagerness for Korean autarky; his efforts to balance the need for foreign aid and his hope for an independent foreign policy; and what seems to be his good sense of timing in doing in internal rivals without attracting Soviet retaliation. Through a series of comparisons not only with the USSR but also with Albania, Romania, Yugoslavia, China, and Vietnam, the author highlights unique features of North Korean communism during the period. Szalontai covers ongoing effects of Japanese colonization, the experiences of diverse Korean factions during World War II, and the weakness of the Communist Party in South Korea.

Author : Jeremy Smith,Melanie Ilic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Don Filtzer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349130764

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The Khrushchev Era by Don Filtzer Pdf

The Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of Stalin, to his ill-fated reorganizations of the Communist Party, agriculture, and industry. Besides giving a factual account of the reforms themselves, Filtzer analyses the complex factors behind their failure, focussing not so much on the inadequacies of Khrushchev as a leader, as on the structural obstacles to reform within the Stalinist system itself. As such the Khruschev period is shown to contain instructive historical lessons for our understanding of Mikhail Gorbachev and his own failed perestroika.

Author : Melanie Ilič,Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393081725

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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, Khrushchev nevertheless retained his humanity: his daring attempt to reform communism prepared the ground for its eventual collapse; and his awkward efforts to ease the cold war triggered its most dangerous crises. This is the first comprehensive biography of Khrushchev and the first of any Soviet leader to reflect the full range of sources that have become available since the USSR collapsed. Combining a page-turning historical narrative with penetrating political and psychological analysis, this book brims with the life and excitement of a man whose story personified his era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:74195069

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The Khrushchev Years, 1953-1964 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Don Filtzer
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0333585267

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The Khrushchev Era by Don Filtzer Pdf

The Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of Stalin, to his ill-fated reorganizations of the Communist Party, agriculture, and industry. Besides giving a factual account of the reforms themselves, Filtzer analyses the complex factors behind their failure, focussing not so much on the inadequacies of Khrushchev as a leader, as on the structural obstacles to reform within the Stalinist system itself. As such the Khruschev period is shown to contain instructive historical lessons for our understanding of Mikhail Gorbachev and his own failed perestroika.

Author : Sergei Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Heads of state
ISBN : 0271058587

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev Pdf

In this third volume, Khrushchev discusses the search for allies in the Third World. This volume is devoted to international affairs and is the only complete and fully reliable English-language version of the memoirs of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1101751505

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Khrushchev in the Kremlin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeffrey S. Hardy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501706042

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The Gulag After Stalin by Jeffrey S. Hardy Pdf

In The Gulag after Stalin, Jeffrey S. Hardy reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin’s death. Hardy argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a humane institution that reeducated criminals into honest Soviet citizens. Under the leadership of Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Dudorov, a Khrushchev appointee, this drive to change the Gulag into a "progressive" system where criminals were reformed through a combination of education, vocational training, leniency, sport, labor, cultural programs, and self-governance was both sincere and at least partially effective. The new vision for the Gulag faced many obstacles. Reeducation proved difficult to quantify, a serious liability in a statistics-obsessed state. The entrenched habits of Gulag officials and the prisoner-guard power dynamic mitigated the effect of the post-Stalin reforms. And the Soviet public never fully accepted the new policies of leniency and the humane treatment of criminals. In the late 1950s, they joined with a coalition of party officials, criminologists, procurators, newspaper reporters, and some penal administrators to rally around the slogan "The camp is not a resort" and succeeded in reimposing harsher conditions for inmates. By the mid-1960s the Soviet Gulag had emerged as a hybrid system forged from the old Stalinist system, the vision promoted by Khrushchev and others in the mid-1950s, and the ensuing counterreform movement. This new penal equilibrium largely persisted until the fall of the Soviet Union.

Author : Martin McCauley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317889229

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The Khrushchev Era 1953-1964 by Martin McCauley Pdf

History and politics students alike will welcome this new Seminar Study which analyses the Khrushchev era -- a critical period of Soviet and world history. It was Khrushchev who, in 1957, finally filled the political vacuum left by the death of Stalin in 1953. He was an erratic, impulsive, inspirational and innovative leader who addressed the fundamental problems of the country - and yet he was, Martin McCauley argues, "a brilliant failure''. In this study the author explores all aspects of the Khrushchev era: including reforms in agriculture, economic policy, crises in Eastern Europe, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, de-Stalinisation and Khrushchev's attempts to reform the Communist Party.

Author : Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Sergei Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Heads of state
ISBN : 0271058595

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev Pdf

In the second volume of three, Khrushchev covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation immediately after 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.

Author : Stuart A. Kallen,Rosemary Wallner
Publisher : Abdo Group
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 1562391038

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The Khrushchev Era, 1953-1965 by Stuart A. Kallen,Rosemary Wallner Pdf

Examines events in the Soviet Union during the era of Khrushchev, with an emphasis on his political reforms.