Jak se rehabilitovaly oběti Stalinova režimu
How Victims of the Stalin Régime were Rehabilitated

Summary/Abstract: Artizov, A. N., Sigachev, Y. V., Shevchuk, I. N., and Khlopov, V. G. (Eds). Reabilitatsiya: Kak eto bylo. Dokumenty Prezidiuma TSK KPSS i drugiye materialy, vol. 1: Mart 1953 -fevral 1956; vol. 2: Fevral 1956 - nachalo 80-kh godov. (Rossiya XX vek.) Moscow: Mezhdunarodnyi fond 'Demokratiya', 2000 and 2003, 503 and 959 pp. This two-volume publication contains more than 400 documents on the exoneration of victims of Soviet political repression and its consequences, under the Soviet govern¬ment led by Nikita S. Khrushchev. The reviewer summarizes the key questions of this complicated process, which lasted from Stalin's death to Brezhnev's coming to power, after which rehabilitation was more or less stopped. He reproaches the editors, how¬ever, with having made a somewhat tendentious selection of documents, in the sway of Khrushchev's positive self-portrayal on the question of rehabilitation, though the work as a whole, he argues, adds considerably to our knowledge of the dismantling the Stalinist system in the USSR.

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