Author | Embree, George Daniel. author |
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Title | The Soviet Union between the 19th and the 20th Party Congresses, 1952-1956 [electronic resource] / by George Daniel Embree |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1959 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9550-8 |
Descript | XI, 365 p. online resource |
I. The Nineteenth Party Congress and the Death of Stalin -- The Background to 1952 -- The Nineteenth Party Congress -- The Emerging Pattern -- The โDoctorsโ Plotโ -- The Death of Stalin -- II. The Post-Stalin Interregnum -- The Initial Crisis and the Struggle for Power -- Policy Changes at Home and Abroad -- Beriaโs Bid for Power -- Beriaโs Arrest and Its Repercussions -- III. The New Foreign and Domestic Policies -- The End of the Interregnum -- The Malenkov-Khrushchev Economic Program -- The Literary Controversy -- The Anti-religious Propaganda Campaign -- Collective Leadership and the Struggle for Power -- The Virgin Lands Program -- The Consumersโ Goods Program -- The New Diplomacy -- IV. Domestic Political and Economic Crises -- The Political Crisis -- The Continuing Economic Crisis -- V. Soviet Foreign Policy: 1955 -- The New Approach -- The Re-appraisal of Soviet Military Doctrine -- The Bandung Conference -- The Austrian State Treaty -- The Disarmament Negotiations -- The Rapprochement with Yugoslavia -- The Negotiation with Japan -- The Military and Foreign Policy -- The Pre-Geneva Maneuvering -- The Summit Conference -- The โSpirit of Genevaโ -- The Middle East and Soviet Diplomacy -- The Stiffening Soviet Propaganda Line -- The Foreign Ministersโ Conference -- The New Trend in Soviet Diplomacy -- VI. The Twentieth Party Congress -- The Announcement -- The Internal Struggle for Power -- The Stalin Image before the Congress -- The Increased Flexibility of Soviet Policy -- The Twentieth Party Congress -- Appendix I. The Secretariats of the Non-Russian Republic Communist Parties -- Appendix II. Changes in the Composition of the Cpsu and Non-Russian republic Central Committies as the Result of the 1956 Party Congresses -- Appendix III. Glossary of Communist Periodicals and Books -- Appendix IV. Typical Soviet Wages and Prices in Moscow and Nine Other Soviet Cities: SeptemberโOctober 1955 -- Biliography