Thaw under Khrushchev

Question 1

Music

Answer 1

• Western music 1955 was brodcast in the ussr through radio station “voice of america”
• 1957 moscow “world youth festival” where young people were able to listen to jazz and mix with westerners
• classic western european music was put back on the curicculum 1957

Question 2

the press

Answer 2

• immediatley after stalins death the soviet journal “new world” published an article - ‘The thaw’, which was highly cirital of stalin

Question 3

Literature

Answer 3

• Books published after stalins death “a day in the life of Ivan Denisovich” a novel set in a gulag
• Young poets such as yevtushenko and voznesenki were allowed to publish experimental poems
• novel titled “not by bread alone” critsising stalin was published in the “new world”

Question 4

Western culture

Answer 4

• during the world youth festival it was viewed as fine for men to sleep with foreign women.