The year I was Peter the Great : 1956--Khrushchev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia / Marvin Kalb.
1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called "the year of the thaw"--A time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by Nikit...
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Language: | English |
Published: | Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2017] |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Roots
- War, college, and basketball
- Teddy, Joyce, and journalism
- From Cambridge to Moscow
- Govorit Moskva
- "Moscow calling"
- De-Stalinization=destabilization
- The thaw
- From Zhukov to Poznan
- Into the heartland
- A summertime break in Central Asia
- Where Stalin is still worshipped
- Back to a familiar chill
- "Dark, frightening, and tragic days"
- Uvarov, Sasha, and Stalin's ghost
- At the end of the arc
- Postscript. Five months later ...