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Khrushchev's Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954-1959 (Hardcover)
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Khrushchev's Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954-1959 (Hardcover)
Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
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On February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev delivered
the so-called "secret speech" in the Twentieth Party Congress of
the CPSU in which he denounced Stalin's transgressions and the cult
of personality around the deceased dictator. Replete with sharp
criticism of the Terror of the late 1930s, the unpreparedness of
the USSR for the Nazi invasion, numerous wartime blunders, and the
deportation of various nationalities, the speech reverberated
throughout the subordinate Soviet republics. For republics such as
Azerbaijan, the speech was an unmistakable signal to readjust the
entire political orientation and figure out ways to redefine
governance in post-Stalin era. Previously frozen under the mortal
threat of Stalinist persecution, various forms of national
self-expression began to experience rapid revival under the
Khrushchev thaw. Encouraged by the winds of change at the Center,
the Azeris cautiously began to reclaim possession of their
administrative domain. Among other local initiatives, the
declaration of the Azerbaijani language as the official language
was one step that stood out in its audacity, for it was not
pre-arranged with the Kremlin and defied the modus operandi of the
Soviet leadership. Somewhat reformist in his intentions yet
ignorant of the non-Slavic peripheries, Mr. Khrushchev had not
foreseen the scenarios that would unfold as a result of its new
tone and the developments that would come to be interpreted as the
rise of nationalism in the republics. Jamil Hasanli's research on
1950s' Azerbaijan sheds light on this watershed period in Soviet
history while also furnishing the reader with a greater
understanding of the root causes of the dissolution of the USSR.
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