The Thaw Generation
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Author | : Li͡udmila Alekseeva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822959113 |
The Thaw Generation offers an insider's look at the Soviet dissident movement--the intellectuals who, during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, dared to challenge an oppressive system and demand the rights guaranteed by the Soviet constitution. Fired from their jobs, hunted by the KGB, “tried,” and imprisoned, Alexeyeva and other activists including Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Orlov, Yuli Daniel, and Andrei Sinyavsky, through their dedication and their personal and professional sacrifices, focused international attention on the issue of human rights in the USSR.
Author | : Denis Kozlov |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2013-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442618957 |
The period from Stalin’s death in 1953 to the end of the 1960s marked a crucial epoch in Soviet history. Though not overtly revolutionary, this era produced significant shifts in policies, ideas, language, artistic practices, daily behaviours, and material life. It was also during this time that social, cultural, and intellectual processes in the USSR began to parallel those in the West (and particularly in Europe) as never before. This volume examines in fascinating detail the various facets of Soviet life during the 1950s and 1960s, a period termed the ‘Thaw.’ Featuring innovative research by historical, literary, and film scholars from across the world, this book helps to answer fundamental questions about the nature and ultimate fortune of the Soviet order – both in its internal dynamics and in its long-term and global perspectives.
Author | : Emily Lygo |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Poets, Russian |
ISBN | : 9783039113705 |
Based on author's Ph.D. thesis, from University of Oxford, 2005.
Author | : Heidi Catherine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2020-01-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780648518167 |
Humans now live in a super greenhouse. Seas have risen. Oceans have acidified. And the fight for resources is deadly. To ensure nothing of this magnitude ever happens again, only those with enough intelligence and heart will earn the right to bear children and heal the earth. Nine teens must face the tests of the Proving to decide who will be Bound to this new order. Four of them will challenge the system in ways even they can't imagine. Nova. The gentle soul who has everything to lose. Kian. The champion of this new world who's determined to succeed. Dex. The one who'll learn nothing is as it seems. Wren. The rebel who wants nothing to do with any of it. As the fight to breed becomes a fight to survive, rules are broken, and hearts are captured. This Proving won't just decide the future of this new order, it will decide the future of humankind.
Author | : Robert D. English |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231110594 |
In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power. English demonstrates that Gorbachev's foreign policy was the result of an intellectual revolution. He analyzes the rise of a liberal policy-academic elite and its impact on the Cold War's end.
Author | : Maria Rogacheva |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017-07-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107196361 |
A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.
Author | : Irene E. Kolchinsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Russian poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter J Schmelz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2009-03-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199711941 |
Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this, and in no realm of the arts was this perhaps more true than in music. Students at Soviet conservatories were at last able to use various channels--many of questionable legality--to acquire and hear music that had previously been forbidden, and visiting performers and composers brought young Soviets new sounds and new compositions. In the 1960s, composers such as Andrey Volkonsky, Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Valentin Silvestrov experimented with a wide variety of then new and unfamiliar techniques ranging from serialism to aleatory devices, and audiences eager to escape the music of predictable sameness typical to socialist realism were attracted to performances of their new and unfamiliar creations. This "unofficial" music by young Soviet composers inhabited the gray space between legal and illegal. Such Freedom, If Only Musical traces the changing compositional styles and politically charged reception of this music, and brings to life the paradoxical freedoms and sense of resistance or opposition that it suggested to Soviet listeners. Author Peter J. Schmelz draws upon interviews conducted with many of the most important composers and performers of the musical Thaw, and supplements this first-hand testimony with careful archival research and detailed musical analyses. The first book to explore this period in detail, Such Freedom, If Only Musical will appeal to musicologists and theorists interested in post-war arts movements, the Cold War, and Soviet music, as well as historians of Russian culture and society.
Author | : Evgeny Dobrenko |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300252846 |
How the last years of Stalin’s rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period—beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953—Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.
Author | : Stephen V. Bittner |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801446061 |
Bittner explores how the neighborhood changed during the period of ideological relaxation under Khrushchev that came to be known as the thaw.