TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Kathleen E. TI - Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring SN - 9780674977488 AV - DK277 PY - 2017///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Political rehabilitation KW - Soviet Union KW - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; 1. JANUARY: After the Ice --; 2. FEBRUARY: A Sudden Thaw --; 3. MARCH: A Flood of Questions --; 4. APRIL: Early Spring --; 5. MAY: Fresh Air --; 6. JUNE: First Flush of Youth --; 7. JULY: Intellectual Heat --; 8. AUGUST: By the Sweat of Their Brows --; 9. SEPTEMBER: Ocean Breezes --; 10. OCTOBER: Storm Clouds --; 11. NOVEMBER: Winds from the East --; 12. DECEMBER: The Big Chill --; Epilogue --; Afterlives --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - In 1956 Khrushchev stunned Communists by reciting a litany of Stalin’s abuses. His bid to rejuvenate the Party opened the door to upheaval, as Soviet citizens asked where the system had gone astray. Kathleen Smith contends that the year’s brief thaw set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union’s collapse UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674977488 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674977488 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674977488.jpg ER -