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REHABILITATION OF THE VICTIMS OF SOVIET REPRESSIONS Mass rehabilitation of the started after the death of Joseph Stalin . Initially, in 1953, it was in the form of Amnesty for those who had been sentenced for a term of at most 5 years. The regular release of Political Prisoner s from Gulag labor camps started in 1954. This release became coupled with exonerations after the Khrushchev 's denunciation of Stalinism in his 1956 speech '' On The Personality Cult And Its Consequences ''. In many cases, the persons were released with an insulting version of the Corpus Delicti : "due to the lack of a proof of guilt", rather than "due to the lack of a criminal matter". Many rehabilitations occurred posthumously. FURTHER READINGS Adler, N. ''The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System''. New Brunswick, USA/London: Transaction Publishers, 2002. Iakovlev, A. (ed.) ''Reabilitatsiia: politicheskie protsessy 30-50-kh godov''. Moscow: Politizdat, 1991. Smith, K. ''Remembering Stalin’s Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR''. Cornell University Press, 1996. |
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