Mass Uprisings in the USSR : Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years (Hardcover)

Preface; Introduction; Part One: Social Conflict in the USSR After the Death of Stalin, 1953-1960; 1. Mastering New Territories in Kazakhstan and Siberia: The Crisis of Modernization and the Heritage of the Gulag; 2. Unrest in the Military: Soldiers' Riots and Disorders; 3. Violent Ethnic Conflicts in the Virgin Lands; 4. The Return of the Deported Nations to the Northern Caucasus: The 1958 Riots in Grozny; 5. Political Disturbances in Georgia After the CPSU Twentieth Party Congress; 6. A Hooligan's War or Battles on the Margins: Uprisings of the Urban Marginaly; 7. Orthodoxy in Revolt: Uprisings Among Religious Believers; Part Two: The Crisis of "Liberal Communism": "Anti-Khrushchev" Urban Uprisings and Disorders, 1961-64; 8. The Early 1960s: Symptoms of a Social-Political Crisis; 9. Krasnodar, RSFSR, January 15-16, 1961; 10. 101 Kilometers from Moscow: Disorders in Murom and Aleksandrov, RSFSR; 11. Biisk-1961 or The Uprising on Market Day, June 25, 1961; 12. The Phenomenon of Novocherkassk: Part One; 13. The Phenomenon of Novocherkassk: Part Two; 14. Rear-Guard Battles of the Late Khrushchev Era; Part Three: "Unruly" Stagnation: Mass Uprisings from the Late 1960s to the Mid-1980s; 15. Social Unrest and Symptoms of Decay in the Brezhnev Years; Conclusion; Index