Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953-64

ISBN-13: 9780415476485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

Smith Jeremy

Opis

This text, based on extensive original research including declassified archives, considers politics, economics and the process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Khrushchev as Leader  3. The Rise of Political Clans in the Era of Nikita Khrushchev: The First Phase, 1953-1959  4. The Central Committee Apparatus under Khrushchev  5. The Outer Reaches of Liberalization: Combating Political Dissent in the Khrushchev Era  6. Leadership and Nationalism in the Soviet Republics, 1953 - 1959  7. Moscow-Kiev Relations and the Sovnarkhoz Rreform  8. Failings of the Sovnarkhoz Reform: The Ukrainian Experience  9. Khrushchev and the Challenge of Technological Progress  10. Khrushchevism after Khrushchev: The Rise of National Interest in the Eastern Bloc  11. The Economy of Illusions: The Phenomenon of Data-inflation in the Khrushchev Era  12. The Modernisation of Soviet Railways Traction in Comparative Perspective  13. From Khrushchev (1935-6) to Khrushchev (1956-64): Construction Policy Compared

O autorze

Jeremy Smith is Senior Lecturer in Russian history at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham, UK.  He is author of The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917-1923 and The Fall of Soviet Communism.

Melanie Ilic is Reader in History at the University of Gloucestershire, and Research Fellow at CREES, University of Birmingham, UK.  She is co-author of Women in the Khrushchev Era.