De-Stalinising Eastern Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. De-Stalinising Eastern Europe: The Dilemmas of Rehabilitation

   • Matthew Stibbe, Kevin McDermott

   Pages 1-24

3. Rehabilitation in the Soviet Union, 1953–1964: A Policy Unachieved

   • Marc Elie

   Pages 25-45

4. De-Stalinisation in Hungary from a Gendered Perspective: The Case of Júlia Rajk

   • Andrea Pető

   Pages 46-66

5. The Release and Rehabilitation of Victims of Stalinist Terror in Poland

   • Piotr Kładoczny

   Pages 67-86

6. The Limits of Rehabilitation: The 1930s Stalinist Terror and Its Legacy in Post-1953 East Germany

   • Matthew Stibbe

   Pages 87-108

7. The Rehabilitation Process in Czechoslovakia: Party and Popular Responses

   • Kevin McDermott, Klára Pinerová

   Pages 109-131

8. Rehabilitation in Romania: The Case of Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu

   • Calin Goina

   Pages 132-149

9. De-Stalinisation and Political Rehabilitations in Bulgaria

   • Jordan Baev

   Pages 150-169

10. The Rehabilitation of Stalin’s Victims in Ukraine, 1953–1964: A Socio-Legal Perspective

    • Oleg Bazhan

    Pages 170-185

11. The Fate of Stalinist Victims in Moldavia after 1953: Amnesty, Pardon and the Long Road to Rehabilitation

    • Igor Caşu

    Pages 186-203

12. Latvian Deportees of the 1940s: Their Release and Rehabilitation

    • Irēna Saleniece

    Pages 204-220

13. The Amnesty and Rehabilitation of Victims of Stalinist Repression in Belarus

    • Iryna Ramanava

    Pages 221-236

14. Afterword: Stalinist Rehabilitations in a Pan-European Perspective

    • Miriam Dobson

    Pages 237-245

15. Back Matter

    Pages 246-262

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This unique volume examines how and to what extent former victims of Stalinist terror from across the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were received, reintegrated and rehabilitated following the mass releases from prisons and labour camps which came in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953 and Khrushchev's reforms in the subsequent decade.

• Communism
• Eastern Europe
• Khrushchev
• Soviet Union
• Stalin
• Stalinism
• communism
• Europe
• Hungary
• Ukraine
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

“Essays work together to provide a picture of the rehabilitation of Stalin’s victims in selected Soviet republics and states in the Soviet sphere of influence. They provide details for the overarching themes of what rehabilitation truly meant for the victims and how these victims sometimes acted on their own behalf. All the essays are captivating and backed by numerous references. Therefore, this collected work is highly recommended.” (Christina Baxter, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 65 (7), October, 2017)

"Scholars have written extensively about Stalinism, yet far less of what happened to the victimized people after the dictator's death. In this state of the art and sensitive collection of essays, leading specialists offer sobering glimpses of the so-called post-Stalin thaw. These studies are a sequel to those in the editors' Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe. Both volumes should make perfect textbooks for graduate and undergraduate studies, though they deserve to reach an audience well beyond academia." - Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck Professor of History, Florida State University, USA

"This excellent book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the often complex process of restoring justice after Stalin's death. An international research team provides a pioneering comparative study of the vicissitudes of the rehabilitation process which reaches completion only after the fall of communism in 1989-91." - Anthony Kemp-Welch, Reader Emeritus in History, University of East Anglia, UK

• Sheffield Hallam University, UK

  Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe

Marc Elie, Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien, et centre-européen, France Andrea Pet?, Central European University, Hungary Piotr K?adoczny, University of Warsaw, Poland Klára Pinerová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Calin Goina, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Jordan Baev, Rakovski National Defense College, Bulgaria Oleg Bazhan, National University of 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy', Ukraine Igor Ca?u, State University of Moldova, Moldova Ir?na Saleniece, Daugavpils University, Latvia Iryna Ramanava, European Humanities University, Lithuania Miriam Dobson, University of Sheffield, UK

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