Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
Polly Jones
Abstract
Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, this book offers an innovative account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. The book traces the authorities' initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynamic field of memory studies, this book represents the first sustained comparison of this process with other countries' attempts to rethink their own di ... More
Keywords: Soviet archives, de-Stalinization, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, memory studies, Stalinism, post-Soviet
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300185126 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2014 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300185126.001.0001 |
