The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union: Political Rehabilitations in the Soviet Union Since Stalin

by Albert P. Van Goudoever

After Stalin's death in 1953 a process of destalinization was initiated in the Soviet Union. The most important part of this policy consisted in the reduction of the terror, and gradually those victims of Stalin who had survived the camps began to reappear in society. Many of those who had been killed could be rehabilitated posthumously. This study deals with the forms, aspects and significance of the phenomenon of rehabilitation in the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1980.

276 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1986