De-Stalinising Eastern Europe: The Rehabilitation of Stalin's Victims after 1953

by Kevin McDermott (Editor), Matthew Stibbe (Editor)

Overview

This unique volume examines how and to what extent former victims of Stalinist terror from across the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were received, reintegrated and rehabilitated following the mass releases from prisons and labour camps which came in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953 and Khrushchev's reforms in the subsequent decade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349558322
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/29/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marc Elie, Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien, et centre-européen, France Andrea Pet?, Central European University, Hungary Piotr Kładoczny, University of Warsaw, Poland Klára Pinerová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Calin Goina, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Jordan Baev, Rakovski National Defense College, Bulgaria Oleg Bazhan, National University of 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy', Ukraine Igor Caşu, State University of Moldova, Moldova Irēna Saleniece, Daugavpils University, Latvia Iryna Ramanava, European Humanities University, Lithuania Miriam Dobson, University of Sheffield, UK

Table of Contents

1. De-Stalinising Eastern Europe: The Dilemmas of Rehabilitation; Matthew Stibbe and Kevin McDermott
2. Rehabilitation in the Soviet Union, 1953-1964: A Policy Unachieved; Marc Elie
3. De-Stalinisation in Hungary from a Gendered Perspective: The Case of Júlia Rajk; Andrea Pet?
4. The Release and Rehabilitation of Victims of Stalinist Terror in Poland; Piotr Kładoczny
5. The Limits of Rehabilitation: The 1930s Stalinist Terror and its Legacy in post-1953 East Germany; Matthew Stibbe
6. The Rehabilitation Process in Czechoslovakia: Party and Popular Responses; Kevin McDermott and Klára Pinerová
7. Rehabilitation in Romania: The Case of Lucretiu Patrascanu; Calin Goina
8. De-Stalinisation and Political Rehabilitations in Bulgaria; Jordan Baev
9. The Rehabilitation of Stalin's Victims in Ukraine, 1953-64: A Socio-Legal Perspective; Oleg Bazhan
10. The Fate of Stalinist Victims in Moldavia after 1953: Amnesty, Pardon and the Long Road to Rehabilitation; Igor Caşu
11. Latvian Deportees of the 1940s: Their Release and Rehabilitation; Irēna Saleniece
12. The Amnesty and Rehabilitation of Victims of Stalinist Repression in Belarus; Iryna Ramanava
Afterword: Stalinist Rehabilitation in a Pan-European Perspective; Miriam Dobson

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Scholars have written extensively about Stalinism, yet far less of what happened to the victimized people after the dictator's death. In this state of the art and sensitive collection of essays, leading specialists offer sobering glimpses of the so-called post-Stalin thaw. These studies are a sequel to those in the editors' Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe. Both volumes should make perfect textbooks for graduate and undergraduate studies, though they deserve to reach an audience well beyond academia." - Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck Professor of History, Florida State University, USA

"This excellent book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the often complex process of restoring justice after Stalin's death. An international research team provides a pioneering comparative study of the vicissitudes of the rehabilitation process which reaches completion only after the fall of communism in 1989-91." - Anthony Kemp-Welch, Reader Emeritus in History, University ofEast Anglia, UK

Editorial Reviews

Essays work together to provide a picture of the rehabilitation of Stalin’s victims in selected Soviet republics and states in the Soviet sphere of influence. They provide details for the overarching themes of what rehabilitation truly meant for the victims and how these victims sometimes acted on their own behalf. All the essays are captivating and backed by numerous references. Therefore, this collected work is highly recommended.” (Christina Baxter, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 65 (7), October, 2017)

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