Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of History
First Advisor
Basil Dmytryshyn
Term of Graduation
Winter 1977
Date of Publication
2-21-1977
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.) in History
Department
History
Language
English
Subjects
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991, Soviet Union -- Relations -- Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe -- Relations -- Soviet Union
DOI
10.15760/etd.2864
Physical Description
1 online resource (3, vii, 260 pages)
Abstract
This thesis is a general examination of the Soviet and East European crisis which followed the death of Joseph Stalin in March, 1953. Stalin's character, position, and power were such that the methods he employed in the government of the vast multi-national and multi-state empire bequeathed to his successors could not be made to function in his absence without reform and redefinition. The post-Stalin leadership realized that in order to consolidate its position at the head of the empire a careful program of "de-Stalinization" was mandatory. The prosecution of that program from the announcement of collective leadership in April, 1953, to the 1957 Moscow celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and the upheavals associated with the period comprise the four year long Soviet and East European crisis of de-Stalinization.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17275
Recommended Citation
Wilson, James Seymour, "In Their Hearts Forever: The Dynamics of Stalinism" (1977). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2870.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2864
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