Description |
414 pages ; 25 cm. |
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Series |
Annals of Communism series |
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Annals of Communism.
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Note |
Translation of: Kramola--inakomyslie v SSSR pri Khrushcheve i Brezhneve, 1953-1982 gg. : rassekrechennye dokumenty Verkhovnogo suda i Prokuratury SSSR. Moscow : Materik, 2005. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Language |
Translated from the Russian. |
Contents |
Stalin Is Dead! -- The Voice of the People -- Heretics and Profaners -- Get Out the Vote! -- Lone Protesters -- Leaflets and Anonymous Letters -- Authors and Their Suggestions for the Improvement of Life -- Underground Groups and Organizations. |
Summary |
Although dissident Soviet intellectuals in the post-Stalin era received wide international attention, ordinary people who opposed the regime rarely had their voices heard. This book is the first to tell the hidden story of popular discontent during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years. It draws on an extraordinary collection of arrest and prosecution records from the 1960s and 1970s found in Soviet Procuracy archives. The attitudes of disgruntled common citizens become clear in these documents. Politically unsophisticated, unimpressed by the liberal-minded intelligentsia, resentful that Soviet goods were being exported while people at home were deprived and hungry, the everyday critics were sometimes caught in acts of "sedition." Their crimes were cursing their bosses, desecrating symbols of Soviet power, penning anonymous letters and leaflets, writing naive anti-Soviet treatises, and joining proto-political organizations. This book covers the gamut, from the death of Stalin to elections to individual and group acts of defiance. |
Subject |
Human rights -- History -- Sources.
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Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.
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Government, Resistance to -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.
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Propaganda, Anti-Soviet -- History -- Sources.
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Evidence, Criminal -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985 -- Sources.
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Dissenters. (OCoLC)fst00895401
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Evidence, Criminal. (OCoLC)fst00917210
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Government, Resistance to. (OCoLC)fst00945663
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Human rights. (OCoLC)fst00963285
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Propaganda, Anti-Soviet. (OCoLC)fst01078983
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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Chronological Term |
1953-1985
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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Added Author |
Kozlov, V. A. (Vladimir Aleksandrovich)
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Fitzpatrick, Sheila.
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Mironenko, S. V. (Serge Vladimirovich), 1951-
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delman, O. V. (Olga V.)
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Zavadskaia, . IU.
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Soviet Union. Verkhovny Sud.
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Soviet Union. Prokuratura.
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ISBN |
9780300111699 |
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030011169X |
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