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| Acknowledgements |
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| Glossary |
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| Introduction: the dilemmas of de-Stalinization |
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| PART I Responses to the Thaw(s): de-Stalinization and public opinion |
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1 'Show the bandit-enemies no mercy!': amnesty, criminality and public response in 1953 |
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21 | (20) |
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2 From the Secret Speech to the burial of Stalin: real and ideal responses to de-Stalinization |
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41 | (23) |
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3 'Democracy' or 'despotism'? How the Secret Speech was translated into everyday life |
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64 | (35) |
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4 Naming the social evil: the readers of Novyi mir and Vladimir Dudintsev's Not by Bread Alone, 1956-59 and beyond |
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| PART II Forging old/new identities: de-Stalinizing the Stalinist self |
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99 | (72) |
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5 Forging citizenship on the home front: reviving the socialist contract and constructing Soviet identity during the Thaw |
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101 | (16) |
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6 De-Stalinizing Soviet childhood: the quest for moral rebirth, 1953-58 |
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117 | (18) |
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7 The arrival of spring? Changes and continuities in Soviet youth culture and policy between Stalin and Khrushchev |
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135 | (19) |
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8 From mobilized to free labour: de-Stalinization and the changing legal status of workers |
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154 | (19) |
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| PART III Rewriting Stalinism: in search of a new style |
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171 | (96) |
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9 Thaws and freezes in Soviet historiography, 1953-64 |
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173 | (20) |
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10 The need for new voices: Writers' Union policy towards young writers 1953-64 |
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193 | (16) |
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11 Modernizing Socialist Realism in the Khrushchev Thaw: the struggle for a 'Contemporary Style' in Soviet art |
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209 | (22) |
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12 'Russia is reading us once more': the rehabilitation of poetry, 1953-64 |
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231 | (19) |
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13 Renouncing dogma, teaching utopia: science in schools under Khrushchev |
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250 | (17) |
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| Select bibliography |
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267 | (9) |
| Index |
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