The Thaw

Denis Kozlov is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Department of Russian Studies at Dalhousie University. Eleonory Gilburd is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.

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.

"A very pioneering work in an emerging field of study, The Thaw makes a major contribution to the social and cultural history of the late Soviet period. The essays in this volume are consistently of a high standard, presenting state-of-the-art research on a dynamic period that is only now receiving its due attention." -- Miriam Dobson, Department of History, University of Sheffield "Successfully bringing together some of the most significant new work on the Thaw, this volume greatly expands our understanding of a pivotal period in Soviet history." -- Charters Wynn, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

Figures and Tables Archival Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Denis Kozlov (Dalhousie University) and Eleonory Gilburd (New York University) The Thaw as an Event in Russian History PART I LOOKING BACK 2 Katerina Clark (Yale University) 'Wait for Me and I Shall Return': The Early Thaw as a Reprise of Late Thirties Culture? 3 Marc Elie (CNRS-EHESS) Khrushchev's Gulag: The Soviet Penitentiary System after Stalin's Death, 1953-1964 4 Alan Barenberg (Texas Tech University) From Prisoners to Citizens? Ex-Prisoners in Vorkuta during the Thaw 5 Denis Kozlov Remembering and Explaining the Terror during the Thaw: Soviet Readers of Ehrenburg and Solzhenitsyn in the 1960s 6 Polly Jones (University of Oxford) The Personal and the Political: Opposition to the "Thaw" and the Politics of Literary Identity in the 1950s and 1960s PART II LOOKING FORWARD 7 Michaela Pohl (Vassar College) From White Grave to Tselinograd to Astana: The Virgin Lands Opening, Khrushchev's Forgotten First Reform 8 Amir Weiner (Stanford University) The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions, and Soviet Frontier Politics 9 Eleonory Gilburd (New York University) The Revival of Soviet Internationalism in the Mid- to Late 1950s 10 Larissa Zakharova (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Soviet Fashion in the 1950s-1960s: Regimentation, Western Influences, and Consumption Strategies 11 Oksana Bulgakowa (Johannes Gutenberg University) Cine-Weathers: Soviet Thaw Cinema in the International Context 12 Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Chicago) The Thaw in Retrospect