| Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70 Contributor(s): Jones, Polly (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300219776 ISBN-13: 9780300219777 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Modern - 20th Century - Political Science | Propaganda |
| Dewey: 947.085 |
| Series: Eurasia Past and Present |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |