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Book The Soviet Sixties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Hornsby
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 0300250525
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book The Soviet Sixties written by Robert Hornsby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period, showing that, even as living standards rose, aspects of earlier days endured. Censorship and policing remained tight, and massacres during protests in Tbilisi and Novocherkassk, alongside invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, showed the limits of reform. The rivalry with the United States reached perhaps its most volatile point, friendship with China turned to bitter enmity, and global decolonization opened up new horizons for the USSR in the developing world. These tumultuous years transformed the lives of Soviet citizens and helped reshape the wider world.

Book The Thaw

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  • Author : Denis Kozlov
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2013-09-20
  • ISBN : 1442618957
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book The Thaw written by Denis Kozlov and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Socialist Sixties

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  • Author : Anne E. Gorsuch
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2013-06-12
  • ISBN : 0253009499
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Socialist Sixties written by Anne E. Gorsuch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies.” —Choice The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world. Themes explored include flows of people and media; the emergence of a flourishing youth culture; sharing of songs, films, and personal experiences through tourism and international festivals; and the rise of a socialist consumer culture and an esthetics of modernity. Challenging traditional categories of analysis and periodization, this book brings the sixties problematic to Soviet studies while introducing the socialist experience into scholarly conversations traditionally dominated by First World perspectives.

Book Men Out of Focus

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  • Author : Marko Dumančić
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 1487531842
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Men Out of Focus written by Marko Dumančić and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period--often described as "The Thaw"--between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists' inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period's most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin."--

Book The Khrushchev Phase

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  • Author : Alexander Werth
  • Publisher : London : R. Hale [1961]
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Khrushchev Phase written by Alexander Werth and published by London : R. Hale [1961]. This book was released on 1961 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politisk og kulturhistorisk fremstilling af Khrushchevs Rusland og dets forhold til Vesten og især USA. Bogen afviger med sin optimistiske friskhed fra andre bøger om samme emne.

Book Philosophy in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Philosophy in the Soviet Union written by Ervin Laszlo and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Issues of the Sixties

Download or read book Issues of the Sixties written by Leonard Freedman and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soviet Literature in the Sixties

Download or read book Soviet Literature in the Sixties written by Max Hayward and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Half a Century of Socialism

Download or read book Half a Century of Socialism written by William J. Pomeroy and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophy in the Soviet Union  A Survey of the Mid sixties  Compiled and Edited by Ervin Laszlo   Articles by Various Authors

Download or read book Philosophy in the Soviet Union A Survey of the Mid sixties Compiled and Edited by Ervin Laszlo Articles by Various Authors written by Ervin Laszlo and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Thaw

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  • Author : Denis Anatolevich) Kozlov
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781442661059
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book The Thaw written by Denis Anatolevich) Kozlov and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Publisher website.

Book The Sixties

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  • Author : Terry Anderson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-28
  • ISBN : 1351689711
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Sixties written by Terry Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixties is a stimulating account of a turbulent age in America. Terry Anderson examines why the nation experienced a full decade of tumult and change, and he explores why most Americans felt social, political and cultural changes were not only necessary but mandatory in the 1960s. The book examines the dramatic era chronologically and thematically and demonstrates that what made the era so unique were the various social "movements" that eventually merged with the counterculture to form a "sixties culture," the legacies of which are still felt today. The new edition has added more material on women and the GLBTQ community, as well as on Hispanic or Latino/a community, the fastest-growing minority in the United States.

Book The Incredible  60s

Download or read book The Incredible 60s written by Jules Archer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often remember the 1960s as a time of peace and love, but it was also a time of assassinations, riots, and an unpopular war. Furthermore, more than three million people took to the streets in violent antiwar and civil rights demonstrations during this decade. In The Incredible '60s, renowned historian Jules Archer brings the glories and tragedies of the sixties to a new generation, with a comprehensive history of sixties counterculture, the Vietnam War and the resistance movement, civil rights, feminism, science, rock ’n’ roll, and more. Covering everything from the Kennedy Era and the Freedom Riders to nuclear weapons and the Cold War, Archer aims to make sure important history is not forgotten, and this is a story for young people—a story about seeing what needs to be changed in the world and making that change happen. Jules Archer traveled to distant parts of the globe in search of information, sometimes going back to original sources. For this book he had dinner with Elvis Presley, had tea with two Australian prime ministers, climbed a volcano via camel, and swum the Seine in Paris at midnight. His adventurous spirit and enthusiasm will be contagious to young readers who may just leave their own indelible mark on a future decade. Sky Pony Press is pleased to add this important and thought-provoking piece of historical literature to its new Jules Archer History for Young Readers series.

Book Soviet Criticism of American Literature in the Sixties

Download or read book Soviet Criticism of American Literature in the Sixties written by Carl R. Proffer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Lenin to Lennon

Download or read book From Lenin to Lennon written by David Gurevich and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophy in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Philosophy in the Soviet Union written by E. Laszlo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet philosophy can no longer be ignored by any serious student of contemporary thought. It is the work of academic philosophers who, on the whole, are neither more nor less competent than their colleagues in the free world. They have, however, inherited a reputation for the dogmatic repetip. on of superannuated doctrines. This reputation, en gendered by poor work under political pressure, was justified until about the mid-fifties. However, in the mid-sixties, when declining pressures make for the toleration of a wider scale of qualified opinion, it is no longer that. The present survey of Soviet thought in the mid-sixties, comprising papers by Western specialists in its major domains, gives an up-to-date account of an impressive field of philosophical endeavor which, awakened from dogmap'c slumbers, rapidly gains in interest and encourages hopes of becoming a valuable component in the vast complex of contemporary philosophy. The studies on Soviet logic and atheism have originally appeared in a special issue of Inquiry (Vol. 9,1) devoted to philosophy in Eastern Europe and edited by the present writer on behalf of Professor Arne Naess. The other papers of this volume are reprinted from Studies in Soviet Thought, the only Western philosophical review entirely dedicated to systematic studies in this field. The necessary permissions by editors and publishers have been granted and are gratefully acknowledged. ER VIN LASZLO v CONTENTS INTRODUCTION J. M.

Book The Sixties Chronicle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Braunstein
  • Publisher : Publications International
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book The Sixties Chronicle written by Peter Braunstein and published by Publications International. This book was released on 2004 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the turbulent decade of the 1960s with hundreds of compelling photographs that capture the drama and emotions of the era, both domestic and abroad.