Khrushchev's secret politics. The power, the intelligentsia, the Jewish question
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Khrushchev's secret politics. The power, the intelligentsia, the Jewish question
29.99 €
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This monograph is part of a series of books on the history of “Jewish politics” in the Soviet Union, including books such as Stalin’s Secret Politics. Power and Antisemitism (New Version): at 2 p.m. (Moscow, 2015) and Secret Politics: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev: at 2 p.m. (Moscow, 2019). Following the Latin motto “Without anger and bias”, the author reconstructs on a strictly scientific documentary basis the complex and contradictory course of the post-Stalin leadership and the new leader of the country N. S. Khrushchev in solving the Jewish problem, which required urgent measures, especially to overcome the legacy of Stalinism, as a completely destroyed and banned Jewish culture and deeply depressed Judaism. The thawing liberalization that has raged in Soviet society since the mid-1950s, if it helped to overcome these crisis phenomena, then, unfortunately, only to a minimal degree. In order for the reader to be convinced of this, the book reproduces in detail the dialogue between the authorities and the liberal creative intelligentsia, as well as the dramatic fates of its prominent figures, including Vasily Grossman, Ilya Ehrenburg, Mikhail Romm, Margarita Aliger, are written out in relief. In addition, for the first time, an attempt was made on a serious scientific basis to understand Khrushchev’s difficult personal position on the “Jewish question” and the bureaucratic mechanism for concealing him by the party apparatus. An important place in the book is occupied by foreign policy plots, including those devoted to the turbulent events of 1956 in Poland, Hungary and the Middle East. Israel’s offensive strategy in the struggle for emigration of Soviet Jews is also unbiased.
The author continues the principled line in it to debunk and expose various legends, myths and falsifications that arose on the basis of the Jewish question in the USSR not only during its existence, but also in the post-Soviet period.
The author continues the principled line in it to debunk and expose various legends, myths and falsifications that arose on the basis of the Jewish question in the USSR not only during its existence, but also in the post-Soviet period.
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