Myth, Memory, Trauma
Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
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Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones 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 difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism.
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Myth, Memory, Trauma, Polly Glegg, Naomi Birchall, Sandra Jones
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- Myth, Memory, Trauma
- Subtitle
- Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Polly Glegg, Naomi Birchall, Sandra Jones
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0300219776
- ISBN13
- 9780300219777
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Russia
- Description
- Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones 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 difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism.