We All Make Mistakes: The Communist Party of Australia and Khrushchev's secret speech, 1956

被引:4
作者
Deery, Phillip [1 ]
Calkin, Rachael [1 ]
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[1] Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
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10.1111/j.1467-8497.2008.00485.x
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K [历史、地理];
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This article examines the impact of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). Specifically it focuses on the reverberations of Khrushchev's "secret speech" within the CPA leadership for the first six months of 1956. It argues that, in contrast to the received wisdom, the response of the leadership was characterised by confusion rather than consistency, division rather than unanimity. This had implications for CPA members as they struggled to come to terms with the line of the leadership and the authenticity or otherwise of the New York Times version of Khrushchev's speech. The words of [Khrushchev's] speech were like bullets, and each found its place in the hearts of the veteran Communists. Tears streamed down the faces of men and women who had spent forty or more years, their whole adult lives, in the movement [...].(1).
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页数:16
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