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KATHLEEN E. SMITH (Washington, DC, USA) A NEW GENERATION OF POLITICAL PRISONERS: "ANTI-SDVIET" STUDENTS, 1956-1957 The year 1956 is associated with new freedoms in the Soviet Union. One need only recall Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Joseph Stalin at that February's XX Party Congress and the _release of GULag prisoners that fol- lowed. Rehabilitation of cultural icons purged or silenced under Stalin took place alongside new literary and artistic sensations, including the publication of Vladimir Dudintsev's anti-bureaucratic novel Not by Bread Alone and the first exhibition of Pablo Picasso's works in the USSR. Young people from the East bloc began to study in Soviet universities, while preparations got un- derway for the arrival of guests from all over the world for 1957's Interna- tional Youth Festival. Yet behind the atmosphere of greater openness lurked uncodified, inconsistent limitations on speech with punishments for those who transgressed. The importance of disarray regarding limits on speech be- comes clear when one looks at 1956 as also a year of protest and repression. - Khrushchev's reversal of the official deification of Stalin shocked the populace and provoked daring outbursts from those who would defend Stalin as well as from those who found the
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2005
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