A portrait of the head of the Soviet Union whose rule followed Stalin's identifies his impact on the country and the rest of the world, tracing his efforts to reform communism and ease the cold war.
In a study focused on Soviet foreign policy from 1941 to 1953, political scientist William Taubman describes an intermediate stage of detente, designed to undermine Western interests, that Stalin reluctantly abandoned because he had failed to anticipate the hardening of American policy that his own tactics provoked.
What was known about Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev during his career was strictly limited by the secretive Soviet government. Little more information was available after he was ousted and became a 'non-person' in the USSR in 1964. This pathbreaking book draws for the first time on a wealth of newly released materials - documents from secret ...
This biographical remembrance of Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev is written by his son and is based on many conversations the two had throughout their lives. It provides key background on major events as well as unique insight into the character and vulnerability of the man.
More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews and memoirs. But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. How did Khrushchev manage not only to ...
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