Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-355) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The Secret Speech -- From thaw to freeze: party history and Soviet literature, 1956-57 -- Forgetting within limits: censorship and preservation of the Stalin cult -- Trauma and redemption: narratives of 1937 in Soviet culture -- Between myth and memory: war, terror, and Stalin in popular memory -- The "cult of personality" in the early Brezhnev era -- Conclusion.
