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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Khrushchev"”.
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Political protest and dissent in the Khrushchev Era
… the subject of political dissent during the Khrushchev era. It examines the kinds of protest behaviours that individuals and groups engaged in and the way that the Soviet authorities responded to them. The findings show that dissenting activity was more frequent and more diverse during the …
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Sport, Kul’turnost, and Physical Culture in the Khrushchev Era Soviet Union, 1953-1964
… cultural norms in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev years, 1953-1964. It also examines the attempted creation of a class of people who exhibited proletarian engagement with work, but also possessed bourgeois cultural tastes. A variety of visual and text-based primary sources from …
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They throw pebbles in our garden: Women and consumerism in the Soviet Union from Lenin to Khrushchev
… Stalin era and it culminates with a focus on the Khrushchev regime. My work demonstrates that although the Khrushchev era sought to ameliorate women's double burden of work and domestic care, significant gains, in the form of economic independence and gender parity, were never achieved. My …
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The Individual after Stalin: Fedor Abramov, Russian Intellectuals, and the Revitalization of Soviet Socialism, 1953-1962
… philosophical ideas in his everyday life. Under Khrushchev, Russian writers bestowed the New Man with even more power to build Communism. Stalin, the superhuman engine of historical progress, had died, giving ordinary citizens more agency, according to the contemporary discourse, to shape the …
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Khrushchev's Grand Design: Soviet Relations with the United States, 1961-1963
… and at the brink. They were Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. These men, one the son of a coal miner, the other the son of a Boston millionaire, were to guide the two meet powerful nations of the world during one of the most challenging and critical periods in the …
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Soviet propaganda : a study of Soviet embassy press releases, 1959-1960.
… the Geneva Conference of Foreign Ministers, Khrushchev's visit to the United States, the U-2 incident and Summit conference, and nuclear testing and disarmament. Quantitative analysis illustrates chronologically how propaganda emphases were shifted in support of foreign policy objectives.
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"""The friendship of peoples"": Soviet ballet, nationalities policy, and the artistic media, 1953-1968"
… within the political and cultural context of the Khrushchev-era Thaw. It traces the Soviet Union's long-standing nationalities policy--envisioned by Lenin even before 1917 and championed by Stalin throughout his tenure--and its connection to the proliferation of state-sponsored classical ballet …
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"The Love of America is on Move:" Victimization, Cold War Consensus, and the Hungarian Revolution, 1956-1957
… Revolution in Budapest. Although Nikita Khrushchev had attempted to "repair" the Soviet Union's image by denouncing Stalin's crimes, the Soviet invasion of Hungary damaged the Soviet Union's legitimacy in the international community. This thesis examines the popular and religious press' …
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The Soviet System and the Historian: E.V. Tarle (1875-1955) as a Case Study
… and the policy of de-Stalinization during the Khrushchev period, the historian to the present day is a servant of the state. He is told what to write by the party and any deviation leads to severe censure. </p>
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Prestige, manipulation, and coercion : elite power struggles and the fate of three revolutions
… of the power struggles fought by Nikita Khrushchev, Deng Xiaoping, and Kim Il Sung. The historic failure to institutionalize leadership selection had a tragic legacy: its absence is crucial for understanding the origins of Soviet stagnation, the tragedy at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and …
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Revisiting Eric Nordlinger: The Dynamics of Russian Civil- Military Relations in the Twentieth Century
… follows up by addressing the middle years of Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Both reformed the military in its relation to the party and state and made the armed forces a more corporate and professional institution. Chapter four pinpoints the drastic changes in both the state and armed forces during …
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Debating the Ideal Soviet Woman: Public Discussions of Gender and Morality in Khrushchev's Russia
… twenty years. As part of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's larger reform program, the "Moral Code" detailed the ideal characteristics of future Communists while also outlining their relationships with each other, the collective, and the state. Recently, scholars such as Deborah Field and Susan …
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Mikhail Gorbachev and His Role in the Peaceful Solution of the Cold War
… highlighting roles of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in the tense negotiations during the confrontation. This thesis is built as a single-case study discovering the personality of Mikhail Gorbachev as a leader and his role in the peaceful solution of the Cold War. It shows how particular …
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Gilded City
… architectural doctrine of the Brezhnev and Khrushchev years, Brodsky and Utkin began to produce fantastical landscapes and structures in exquisite and detailed drawings. Imaginative, light-hearted, subversive, their body of work freely referenced historical precedents ranging from Greek …
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It Takes A Union To Raise A Soviet: Children's Summer Camps As A Reflection Of Late Soviet Society
… these years marked by the rule of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev as the time of transformations of Soviet state and society. The goal of my project was to closely analyze how these transformations affected Soviet children using the example of children’s summer camps. Khrushchev’s …
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The ratification of the first nuclear treaty: the test ban debate of 1963
… a sudden change of heart by the Soviet Chairman Khrushchev made the treaty possible. Its ratification by the U.S. Senate was preceded by exhaustive hearings, lengthy debate and wide public discussion. The Secretary of Defense stated that the treaty would aid national defense but scientists and …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… While the house took center stage in the Nixon/Khrushchev kitchen debates as a symbol of modern efficiency and capitalist values, its popularity depended largely upon its obvious appropriation of vernacular architecture from the 19th century, those California haciendas and Texas dogtrots that …
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Spiritual nourishment: The virgin lands campaign and the emergence of the Soviet people
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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A Chinese exploration of Sino-Soviet relations since the death of Stalin, 1953-1989.
… that relations were deteriorating rapidly. Khrushchev's China policy appeared to have two elements. 1) To increase the scale of Soviet economic aid to China, thus reassuring it of friendship while increasing Soviet penetration of its economy. 2) To oust Mao Zedong and anti-Soviet elements …