Thaw: Events. March 1953 - August 1968

A short period of thaws is one of the most significant, but at the same time contradictory and poorly studied in Soviet history. “The cult of personality is sprinkled with mud, / but in the fortieth year / the cult of evil and the cult of monotonings / still still in use,” Boris Pasternak spoke about historical trends in May 1956. The book of Sergei Chuprinin was built as a chronicle of the main events that occurred in Russian culture from March 1953 to August 1968. Their commentators are either direct participants, or eyewitnesses and contemporaries, whose evidence is presented in diaries, letters, memoirs and archival publications. The culture of the thaw era, seen on a wide socio-political background, comes to life here both in a dialogue with the expectations of Soviet society, and in a dramatic conflict with state totalitarianism and state unanimity. Sergey Chuprinin is a literary critic, literary critic, cultural historian, editor -in -chief of the magazine "Banner"