Stalin’s death introduced a new era in Soviet history.
Exhausting, wasteful, and irrational, the dictator’s method of ruling by terror and duress could not be maintained indefinitely. Even the Soviet elite yearned for change. The need for a general relaxation of Stalin’s rigid controls was obvious and pressing.
It was essential that the people of the USSR finally derive appreciable material benefits from the vast political and economic power the Soviet state had amassed. But as the Kremlin cautiously relaxed its grip, issues that had been apparently resolved earlier reemerged and the quest by Stalin’s successors for new solutions often created new problems. Although the retreat from Stalinism and the search for fresh approaches to the building of communism were evident in all the republics of the Soviet Union, in Ukraine these changes were especially numerous and noteworthy.
More on the topic Stalin’s death introduced a new era in Soviet history.:
- Chapter 24 The Second Soviet Republic
- Changing Views of Stalin’s Rule in the Light of New Evidence1
- Chapter 20 Communism and Nationalism
- School Textbooks
- Summary
- The Territory of Ukraine and Its History
- Notes
- The Formation of the Cossack Myth
- De-kulakization, Collectivization, and the Famine, 1929-1932
- 7 Life and Death in Reichskommissariat Ukraine
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