Title Remembering Stalin's victims : popular memory and the end of the USSR / Kathleen E. Smith.

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Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Cornell paperbacks
	Cornell paperbacks.
Note	Originally published 1996 by Cornell University Press.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	1. Liberalization and Settling Accounts -- 2. Khrushchev's Thaw: Selective Destalinization -- 3. Glasnost and the Reemergence of the Stalin Question -- 4. Antistalinism and the Dissidents -- 5. From Petitioners to Protesters: The Birth of the Memorial Society -- 6. The Movement and the Struggle -- 7. Battles Over Commemoration and Compensation -- 8. The Decline of Antistalinism -- 9. The End of Soviet Rule and Prospects for Settling Accounts.
Summary	In Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past. She also addresses the underlying question how societies emerging from repressive regimes reconcile themselves to their memories. Soviet leaders twice attempted to liberalize Communist rule and both times their initiatives hinged on criticism of Stalin. During the years of the Khrushchev "thaw" and again during Gorbachev's glasnost, antistalinism proved a unique catalyst for democratic mobilization. The battle over the Soviet past, Smith suggests, not only illuminates the dynamic between elite and mass political actors during liberalization but also reveals the scars that totalitarian rule has left on Russian society and the long-term obstacles to reform it has created.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Political persecution -- Soviet Union.
	Dissenters -- Soviet Union.
	Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
	Political rehabilitation -- Soviet Union.
	Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics.
	Political rehabilitation -- Former Soviet republics.
	Dissenters. (OCoLC)fst00895401
	Political persecution. (OCoLC)fst01069448
	Political rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst01069712
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Post-communism. (OCoLC)fst01072730
	Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
	Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics. (OCoLC)fst01262458
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights.
	HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Added Author	Inter-Republic Memorial Society (Soviet Union)
Other Form:	Print version: Smith, Kathleen E. Remembering Stalin's victims. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2009 9780801475962 (DLC) 95041397 (OCoLC)320798709
ISBN	9781501717956 (electronic bk.)
	1501717952 (electronic bk.)

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