CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Secret Speech 17
6. 2. From Thaw to Freeze: Party History and Soviet Literature, 1956–57 57
7. 3. Forgetting within Limits: Censorship and Preservation of the Stalin Cult 97
8. 4. Trauma and Redemption: Narratives of 1937 in Soviet Culture 129
9. 5. Between Myth and Memory: War, Terror, and Stalin in Popular Memory 173
10. 6. The “Cult of Personality” in the Early Brezhnev Era 212
11. Conclusion 258
12. NOTES 263
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 331
14. INDEX 357