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archival protest research
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Author_V. A. Kozlov
authoritarian regime dynamics
Azerbaijan SSR
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central
Chechen Ingush ASSR
city
City Party Committee
civilian
Civilian Police Volunteers
committee
cpsu
CPSU Central Committee
CPSU General Secretary
disorders
District Police Department
disturbances
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ethnic conflict studies
Firemen
Forced Labor Camps
Georgian SSR
Industrial Construction
Kazakh SSR
Khrushchev era reforms
Mass Disorders
Mass Hooliganism
Military Headquarters
party
police
Police Department Building
political repression analysis
postwar Soviet unrest case studies
Primorskii Krai
RSFSR Criminal Code
Soviet social movements
Tadzhik SSR.
Top Secret
Ukraine SSR.
USSR Procuracy
USSR State Planning Committee
Violated
volunteer
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780765606686
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Until recent times, incidents of mass unrest in the USSR were shrouded in official secrecy. Now this pioneering work by historian Vladimir A. Kozlov has opened up these hidden chapters of Soviet history. It details an astonishing variety of widespread mass protest in the post-Stalin period, including workers' strikes, urban riots, ethnic and religious confrontations, and soldiers' insurrections. Kozlov has drawn on exhaustive research in police, procuracy, KGB, and Party archives to recreate the violent major uprisings described in this volume. He traces the historical context and the sequence of events leading up to each mass protest, explores the demographic and psychological dynamics of the situation, and examines the actions and reactions of the authorities. This painstaking analysis reveals that many rebellions were not so much anti-communist as essentially conservative in nature, directed to the defense of local norms being disturbed by particular instances of injustice or by the rash of Krushchev-era reforms. This insight makes the book valuable not only for what it tells us about postwar Soviet history, but also for what it suggests about contemporary Russian society as well as popular protests in general.
Vladimir A. Kozlov, Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon,
