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Van der Linde, Femke (2019)

Jonge Sovjetburgers en de Geheime Speech van Chroesjtsjov

Bachelor thesis | Geschiedenis (BA)

After Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin in 1956, much changed for the citizens of the Soviet Union. This thesis aims to set out a clear overview of the opinions and viewpoints of young Soviet citizens in 1956, regarding the secret speech. It aims to do so by first of all discussing the events during that time period and so to illustrate how the process of destalinisation started. Secondly, the viewpoints of young people, taken from the primary source that is the memoires of Marvin Kalb, 25 at the time and working in Moscow for the year 1956, are compared to the popular opinion of that time. Thus a clear distinction can be made between the opinions of young people and the popular opinion of the rest of the Soviet Union.

Chroesjtsjov

1956

Sovjet

Destalinisatie

Author

Van der Linde, Femke

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Algemene Geschiedenis

Supervisors

Kern, Henk

ECTS Credits

15

Language

nl