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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Hornsby (University of Birmingham)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9781107521247ISBN 10: 1107521246 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 14 May 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: 1. An end to silence; 2. Putting out fires; 3. After the Hungarian rising; 4. Turning back the tide: the clampdown on dissent; Part II: 5. The anti-Soviet underground; 6. Taking to the streets; 7. Less repression, more policing; 8. The application of force; 9. A precursor to the Soviet human rights movement; Conclusion.Reviews'Hornsby argues that dissent during the Khrushchev period was more varied and widespread than customary depictions indicate ... using archival sources, he contends convincingly that the Soviet leader's primary goal was to maintain political stability without using terror, not to establish greater political freedom.' K. D. Slepyan, Choice 'Hornsby's book is a very well researched, richly detailed and elegantly written synthesis of dissent and popular protest under Khrushchev.' H-Soz-u-Kult Hornsby argues that dissent during the Khrushchev period was more varied and widespread than customary depictions indicate ... using archival sources, he contends convincingly that the Soviet leader's primary goal was to maintain political stability without using terror, not to establish greater political freedom. K. D. Slepyan, Choice Hornsby's book is a very well researched, richly detailed and elegantly written synthesis of dissent and popular protest under Khrushchev. H-Soz-u-Kult Hornsby's book makes several contributions to the field ... it strengthens the scholarship on Khrushchev-era society ... Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Canadian Slavonic Papers 'Hornsby argues that dissent during the Khrushchev period was more varied and widespread than customary depictions indicate … using archival sources, he contends convincingly that the Soviet leader's primary goal was to maintain political stability without using terror, not to establish greater political freedom.' K. D. Slepyan, Choice 'Hornsby's book is a very well researched, richly detailed and elegantly written synthesis of dissent and popular protest under Khrushchev.' H-Soz-u-Kult 'Hornsby argues that dissent during the Khrushchev period was more varied and widespread than customary depictions indicate ... using archival sources, he contends convincingly that the Soviet leader's primary goal was to maintain political stability without using terror, not to establish greater political freedom.' K. D. Slepyan, Choice 'Hornsby's book is a very well researched, richly detailed and elegantly written synthesis of dissent and popular protest under Khrushchev.' H-Soz-u-Kult Author InformationRobert Hornsby is Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. He is also a Teaching Fellow in Russian History at the University of Leeds and, from May 2013, a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of Kent. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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