Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments, 1945-1957 Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments, 1945-1957

Name: Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments, 1945-1957 Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments, 1945-1957
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ISBN: 9780765602282

ISBN-10: 0765602288

ISBN-13: 9780765602282

Edition: 1999

Authors: Elena Zubkova, University of University of Alabama, Hugh Ragsdale

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The years of late Stalinism are one of the murkiest periods in Soviet history, best known to us through the voices of Ehrenburg, Khrushchev, and Solzhenitsyn. Now at last we have a sweeping history of Russia from the end of the war to the Thaw by one of Russia's most respected younger historians. Drawing on the resources of newly opened archives as well as the recent outpouring of published diaries and memoirs, Elena Zubkova presents a richly detailed portrayal of the basic conditions of people's lives in Soviet Russia from 1945 to 1957. She deftly brings out the dynamics of postwar popular expectations and the cultural stirrings set in motion by the wartime experience versus the regime's…

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List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Charles W. J. Withers is the Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason.




Strategies of Survival



The Social Psychology of the War



The Victory and the Victors



How to Live after the War? The Conflict of Expectation and Reality



The Hungry Years: The Famine of 1946-1947



The Currency Reform of 1947: The Views from Above and Below



The Illusion of Liberalization



The State and the Peasant: Village Antagonism to the Collective Farm



Religion and Politics: The Revival of Religious Belief



The Political Temper of the Masses, 1945-1948



Something Must be Done: The Intelligentsia and the Intellectual Mavericks



Repression



The Situation Doesn't Change: The Crisis of Postwar Expectations



The Birth of the Anti-Stalinist Youth Movement



The Struggle with Dissent



The Wave of Repression, 1949-1953



The Evolution of Public Opinion: Whose Fault Is It?



The Thaw



Without Stalin: The New Public Atmosphere



The Repudiation of the GULAG



Turning to the Individual: The Paths from Above and Below



The Decision on the Cult of Personality and Its Social Impact



Public Opinion and the Hungarian Syndrome