Две революции, две составные части политического инакомыслия эпохи «Оттепели»

Социология власти. 2017. Т. 2. № 29. С. 153–177.

Kozlov D.

Independent social life of the “Thaw” period is examined less then dissidents’ resistance or mass public actions of Perestroika. Appealing to the 1950–1960s independent initiatives and protest actions allow us to keep track of changes in the dialogue between authorities and the society in postwar USSR.  The article demonstrates that ideas and images connected with October Revolution of 1917 and with reforms of the state-socialism in Eastern Europe during mid-1950s markedly affected on critical programs of the “Thaw” period. One of the key questions of the epoch sounded like: “Was the Soviet state the pure successor of the proletarian dictatorship?” Unsolved social and economic problems, state unwillingness to listen for the alternative political projects from-below, repressions against dissenters who stuck to ideals of the October became reasons of the social apathy and critical intelligentsia’s disillusion in socialist ideas at large.

Keywords: Khrushchev's thaw, Хрущевская Оттепель, October revolution of 1917, Октябрьская революция 1917 г., Hungarian rebellion 1956, Soviet dissent, Milovan Djilas, political underground, Венгерское восстание 1956, инакомыслие в СССР, Милован Джилас, политические подпольные организации