Author: Jeremy Smith Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136831819 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including formal and informal political relationships; economic reforms and nationality relations in the national republics of the USSR; the treatment of political dissent; economic progress through technological innovation; relations with the Eastern bloc; corruption and deceit in the economy; and the reform of the railways and construction sectors. The book re-evaluates the Khrushchev era as one which represented a significant departure from the Stalin years, introducing a number of policy changes that only came to fruition later, whilst still suffering from many of the limitations imposed by the Stalinist system. Unlike many other studies which consider the subject from the perspective of the Cold War and superpower relations, this book provides an overview of the internal development of the Soviet Union in this period, locating it in the broader context of Soviet history. This is the companion volume to the Jeremy Smith and Melanie Ilic’s previous edited collection, Soviet State and Society under Nikita Khrushchev (Routledge, 2009).
Author: Melanie Ilic Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134023634 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 235
Book Description
This book examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. With individual case studies exploring key aspects of Khrushchev's period of office, it offers an important new perspective on the Khrushchev era.
Author: William Tompson Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349256080 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 349
Book Description
Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard biography provides much new information on Khrushchev's life and career. Khrushchev's ultimate failure to realise his vision of the Soviet future is linked to the unrealistic optimism of that vision as well as to the contradictions inherent in Khrushchev's views and policies.
Author: Peter Kenez Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521311984 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority that posed the question, "Who shall govern Russia?" This question was resolved with the creation of the Soviet Union.
Author: William Taubman Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393324842 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 929
Book Description
Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.
Author: Rob Hornsby Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107030927 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 325
Book Description
Robert Hornsby draws on a range of declassified archival material to analyse political protest and government repression in post-Stalin USSR.