Dissent in the Years of Krushchev

The book is an analysis of the dilemmas confronting the communist party after Stalin''s death in 1953. It focuses on how ordinary citizens received and reacted to the policy of the party and the state. It is also the history of people who, driven by disillusion, despair and anger, either withdrew from the public sphere and thus demonstrated passive resistance to the regime or, on the contrary, cho...