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Author : Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271043463
Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393081725
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, Khrushchev nevertheless retained his humanity: his daring attempt to reform communism prepared the ground for its eventual collapse; and his awkward efforts to ease the cold war triggered its most dangerous crises. This is the first comprehensive biography of Khrushchev and the first of any Soviet leader to reflect the full range of sources that have become available since the USSR collapsed. Combining a page-turning historical narrative with penetrating political and psychological analysis, this book brims with the life and excitement of a man whose story personified his era.
Author : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271023325
Nikita Khrushchev&’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that &"we will bury you&" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career the motivation for Khrushchev&’s actions wasn&’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev&’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was &"we will bury colonialism&"). This is the first volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In this volume, Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and then Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. He vividly portrays life in Stalin's inner circle and among the generals who commanded the Soviet armies. Khrushchev&’s sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the value of this unique personal and historical document. Included among the Appendixes is Sergei Khrushchev&’s account of how the memoirs were created and smuggled abroad during his father&’s retirement.
Author : Sergeĭ Khrushchev,William Taubman
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316491942
The son of Nikita Khruschev offers a personal insight into the Khruschev era.
Author : Martin McCauley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317889212
History and politics students alike will welcome this new Seminar Study which analyses the Khrushchev era -- a critical period of Soviet and world history. It was Khrushchev who, in 1957, finally filled the political vacuum left by the death of Stalin in 1953. He was an erratic, impulsive, inspirational and innovative leader who addressed the fundamental problems of the country - and yet he was, Martin McCauley argues, "a brilliant failure''. In this study the author explores all aspects of the Khrushchev era: including reforms in agriculture, economic policy, crises in Eastern Europe, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, de-Stalinisation and Khrushchev's attempts to reform the Communist Party.
Author : Melanie Ilic,Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134023639
This book examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. With individual case studies exploring key aspects of Khrushchev's period of office, it offers an important new perspective on the Khrushchev era.
Author : M. Ilic,S. Reid,L. Attwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230523432
This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources. Exploring diverse subjects including housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and consumption, the volume places the analysis of specific events or issues within a broader discussion of economic, political, ideological and international developments to provide a full analysis of the era.
Author : William J. Tompson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312163606
Details the former Soviet leader's life and career, from his peasant origins through his rise to power and subsequent fall
Author : Kathleen E. Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674977464
In 1956 Khrushchev stunned Communists by reciting a litany of Stalin’s abuses. His bid to rejuvenate the Party opened the door to upheaval, as Soviet citizens asked where the system had gone astray. Kathleen Smith contends that the year’s brief thaw set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Author : George W. Breslauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134875726
First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader. Central issues of Soviet domestic politics are examined: investment priorities, incentive policy, administrative reform, and political participation. The author rejects the conventional images of Khrushchev as an embattled consumer advocate and decentraliser, and of Brezhnev’s leadership as dull and conservative. He looks at how they dealt with the task of devising programs that combined the post-Stalin elite’s goals of consumer satisfaction and expanded political participation with traditional Soviet values.
Author : Nataliya Kibita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135047238
The Sovnarkhoz Reform of 1957 was designed by Khrushchev to improve efficiency in the Soviet economic system by decentralising economic decision making from all-Union branch ministries in Moscow to the governments of the individual republics and regional economic councils. Based on extensive original research, including unpublished archival material, this book examines the reform, discussing the motivations for it, which included Khrushchev's attempt to strengthen his own power base. The book explores how the process of reform was implemented, especially its impact on the republics, and analyses why the reform, which was reversed in 1959, failed. Overall, the book reveals a great deal about the workings, and the shortcomings, of the Soviet economic system at its height.
Author : William Tompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349256082
Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard biography provides much new information on Khrushchev's life and career. Khrushchev's ultimate failure to realise his vision of the Soviet future is linked to the unrealistic optimism of that vision as well as to the contradictions inherent in Khrushchev's views and policies.
Author : Balázs Szalontai
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0804753229
Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. The authors principal new source is the Hungarian diplomatic archives, which contain extensive reporting on Kim Il Sung and North Korea, thoroughly informed by research on the period in the Soviet and Eastern European archives and by recently published scholarship. Much of the story surrounds Kim Il Sung: his Korean nationalism and eagerness for Korean autarky; his efforts to balance the need for foreign aid and his hope for an independent foreign policy; and what seems to be his good sense of timing in doing in internal rivals without attracting Soviet retaliation. Through a series of comparisons not only with the USSR but also with Albania, Romania, Yugoslavia, China, and Vietnam, the author highlights unique features of North Korean communism during the period. Szalontai covers ongoing effects of Japanese colonization, the experiences of diverse Korean factions during World War II, and the weakness of the Communist Party in South Korea.
Author : Max Frankel
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345466716
An examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis analyzes the roles, objectives, and actions of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the October 1962 showdown between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
Author : Grover Furr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9350022508
