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290 Pages
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Routledge
290 Pages
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Routledge
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Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying legitimacy of the Soviet system. At the same time, the Gulag victims to society opened questions... Read more
Introduction; 1: Defining the Parameters; 2: The First Return: Between Liberation and Liberalization, 1947-1953; 3: The System’s Adaptation to Repression, 1953-55; 4: The Impact of Repression on Readaptation; 5: The Politics of Readaptation and Resocialization Procedures: Policy and Practice before and after the XX Party Congress; 6: The Effect of Repression and Readaptation on Both the Returnees and the Political System; 7: The Victims Strike Again: The Reemergence of Returnees in the Eighties and Nineties
Biography
Nanci Adler
