Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 272 p. — (Oxford Studies in Modern European History). — ISBN10: 0199609942; ISBN13: 978-0199609949. In the Khrushchev era, Soviet citizens were newly encouraged to imagine themselves exploring the medieval towers of Tallinn's Old Town, relaxing on the Romanian Black Sea coast, even climbing the Eiffel Tower. By the mid 1960s, hundreds of...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 344 p. Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union is the first history of Nikita Khrushchev's venture to cover the Soviet Union in corn, a crop common globally but hitherto rare in his country. Lasting from 1953 until 1964, this crusade was an emblematic component of his efforts to resolve agrarian crises...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 254 p. — ISBN 1–4039–2043–5. 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...
Londom: Routledge, 2015. — 246 p. — ISBN10: 1138182958; ISBN13: 978-1138182950 — (Basees/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. Book 89) The Sovnarkhoz reform of 1957 was designed by Khrushchev to improve efficiency in the Soviet economic system by decentralizing economic decision-making from all-Union branch ministries in Moscow to the governments of the...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 396 p. In the wake of Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union entered a period of relative openness known as the Thaw. Soviet citizens took advantage of the new opportunities to meditate on the nation’s turbulent history, from the Bolshevik Revolution, to the Terror, to World War II. Perhaps the most influential of these conversations took...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 178 p. — ISBN10: 1349431664; ISBN13: 978-1349431663 The book is an analysis of the dilemmas confronting the communist party after Stalin's death in 1953. It focuses on how ordinary citizens received and reacted to the policy of the party and the state. It is also the history of people who, driven by disillusion, despair and anger, either...
Paris: Table ronde, 1954. - 371 p.; 32 p. ill. USSR in the era of Malenkov. In French. En juin 1954, Pierre Lazareff, fondateur de "France-Soir", et son épouse Hélène, créatrice du magazine "Elle", obtiennent un visa pour l’URSS de l’après-Staline. Ils publient un grand reportage sur ce qu’ils ont vu et entendu derrière le rideau de fer. "Ça va mieux depuis que Staline est...
Washington D.C.: United States Information Agency, 1962. — 63 p. Problems of Communism is a bimonthly publication. Its purpose is to provide analyses and significant background information on various aspects of world communism today. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the United States Government. Cotents Current Developments...
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1962. — 296 p. Commentary: Anti-Stalinism and Its Ramifications Documents Khrushchev: The Basic Indictment (Speech of October 17) Chou En-lai: Speech of October 19 Podgorny: Speech of October 19 Mazurov: Speech of October 19 Statement by the Central Committee of the Albanian Workers Party (October 20) Mikoyan: Speech of October 20 Suslov:...
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