De-Stalinising Eastern Europe

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

"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

• 1. De-Stalinising Eastern Europe: The Dilemmas of Rehabilitation; Matthew Stibbe and Kevin McDermott2. Rehabilitation in the Soviet Union, 1953-1964: A Policy Unachieved; Marc Elie3. De-Stalinisation in Hungary from a Gendered Perspective: The Case of Júlia Rajk; Andrea Pet? 4. The Release and Rehabilitation of Victims of Stalinist Terror in Poland; Piotr K?adoczny5. The Limits of Rehabilitation: The 1930s Stalinist Terror and its Legacy in post-1953 East Germany; Matthew Stibbe 6. The Rehabilitation Process in Czechoslovakia: Party and Popular Responses; Kevin McDermott and Klára Pinerová7. Rehabilitation in Romania: The Case of Lucretiu Patrascanu; Calin Goina8. De-Stalinisation and Political Rehabilitations in Bulgaria; Jordan Baev 9. The Rehabilitation of Stalin's Victims in Ukraine, 1953-64: A Socio-Legal Perspective; Oleg Bazhan10. The Fate of Stalinist Victims in Moldavia after 1953: Amnesty, Pardon and the Long Road to Rehabilitation; Igor Ca?u11. Latvian Deportees of the 1940s: Their Release and Rehabilitation; Ir?na Saleniece12. The Amnesty and Rehabilitation of Victims of Stalinist Repression in Belarus; Iryna RamanavaAfterword: Stalinist Rehabilitation in a Pan-European Perspective; Miriam Dobson