Title: De-Stalinising Eastern Europe
Description: "After Stalin's death in 1953, his successors, most notably Nikita Khrushchev, initiated a series of reforms which had an enormous impact on the future direction not only of the Soviet Union, but of the communist states of Eastern Europe. Among other things, de-Stalinisation meant the release and repatriation of hundreds of thousands of prisoners from labour camps, penal settlements and jails across the region, many of them victims of the terror, purges and mass repression carried out during the Stalinist period. This volume focuses on the impact of the releases on Eastern European regimes and societies, and questions the extent to which the returnees were fully rehabilitated in the judicial, political, socio-economic or moral sense. The countries covered include the Soviet Union as a whole, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, as well as four individual Soviet Republics: Ukraine, Moldavia, Latvia and Belarus"--
Subjects: Europe, eastern, politics and government, Soviet union, politics and government, 1945-1991, Political prisoners, Europe, eastern, social conditions, Soviet union, social conditions, Politics and government, Victims of state-sponsored terrorism, History, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Eastern Europe, Social conditions, Political rehabilitation, Soviet Union, Political science, history, Soviet union, history, History, modern, Europe, history