Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations, Figures, and Tables vii
4. Archival Abbreviations ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 The Thaw as an Event in Russian History 18
8. Part One: Looking Back
9. 2 ‘Wait for Me and I Shall Return’: The Early Thaw as a Reprise of Late Thirties Culture? 85
10. 3 Khrushchev’s Gulag: The Soviet Penitentiary System after Stalin’s Death, 1953–1964 109
11. 4 From Prisoners to Citizens? Ex-Prisoners in Vorkuta during the Thaw 143
12. 5 Remembering and Explaining the Terror during the Thaw: Soviet Readers of Ehrenburg and Solzhenitsyn in the 1960s 176
13. 6 The Personal and the Political: Opposition to the Thaw and the Politics of Literary Identity in the 1950s and 1960s 231
14. Part Two: Looking Forward
15. 7 From White Grave to Tselinograd to Astana: The Virgin Lands Opening, Khrushchev’s Forgotten First Reform 269
16. 8 The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions, and Soviet Frontier Politics 308
17. 9 The Revival of Soviet Internationalism in the Mid to Late 1950s 362
18. 10 Soviet Fashion in the 1950s–1960s: Regimentation, Western Influences, and Consumption Strategies 402
19. 11 Cine-Weathers: Soviet Thaw Cinema in the International Context 436
20. 12 Afterword: The Thaw in Retrospect 482
21. List of Contributors 493
22. Index 497