Denis Kozlov, Eleonory Gilburd, eds., The Thaw, Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s

The edited volume under review has as its main aim the examination of the defining issues that transpired during the Thaw era, a period spanning the post‑Stalin 1950s and most of the following decade. Justifying their focus on a relatively brief period of Soviet history, the editors characterize the years in question as a “paradigmatically defining moment for the entire period from Stalin’s death until – and largely also beyond – the collapse of the Soviet Union” (p. 3). The essays included i..