The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-64
The Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of Stalin, to his ill-fated reorganizations of the Communist Party, agriculture, and industry. Besides giving a factual account of the reforms themselves, Filtzer analyses the complex factors behind their failure, focussing not so much on the inadequacies of Khrushchev as a leader, as on the structural obstacles to reform within the Stalinist system itself. As such the Khruschev period is shown to contain instructive historical lessons for our understanding of Mikhail Gorbachev and his own failed perestroika.
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The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-64
The Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of Stalin, to his ill-fated reorganizations of the Communist Party, agriculture, and industry. Besides giving a factual account of the reforms themselves, Filtzer analyses the complex factors behind their failure, focussing not so much on the inadequacies of Khrushchev as a leader, as on the structural obstacles to reform within the Stalinist system itself. As such the Khruschev period is shown to contain instructive historical lessons for our understanding of Mikhail Gorbachev and his own failed perestroika.
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The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-64

The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-64

by Don Filtzer
The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-64

The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-64

by Don Filtzer

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The Khrushchev Era examines the major political, social, and economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, from the 'Secret Speech' and Khrushchev's limited, but at the time earth-shattering critique of Stalin, to his ill-fated reorganizations of the Communist Party, agriculture, and industry. Besides giving a factual account of the reforms themselves, Filtzer analyses the complex factors behind their failure, focussing not so much on the inadequacies of Khrushchev as a leader, as on the structural obstacles to reform within the Stalinist system itself. As such the Khruschev period is shown to contain instructive historical lessons for our understanding of Mikhail Gorbachev and his own failed perestroika.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333585269
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/19/1993
Series: Studies in European History , #3
Edition description: 1993
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.22(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Problems of Reform in the Post-Stalin Era
The Background to De-Stalinization: The Events of 1953
The Secret Speech and its Aftermath
Political and Social Reforms
Agriculture Industry
The Reorganization of the Communist Party Conclusion: The Failures of De-Stalinization and Perestroika in Historical Perspective.

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