Khrushchev's cold summer
Subtitle: Gulag returnees, crime, and the fate of reform after Stalin
By: Miriam Dobson.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780801447570
Subjects: Political prisoners -- Rehabilitation -- Soviet Union -- History; Ex-convicts -- Soviet Union -- History; Crime -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985; Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1953 : "the most painful year"; title: Prisoners and the art of petitioning, 1953-1956; title: Heroes, enemies, and the secret speech; title: Returnees, crime, and the gulag subculture; title: The redemptive mission; title: A return to weeding; title: 1961 : clearing a path to the future; title: Literary hooligans and parasites.