Khrushchev The Man And His Era

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393081725

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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman Pdf

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 : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393324846

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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman Pdf

Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393051447

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Khrushchev by William Taubman Pdf

Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.

Author : Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271043463

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Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei N. Khrushchev Pdf

Author : Sergeĭ Khrushchev,William Taubman
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316491942

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Khrushchev on Khrushchev by Sergeĭ Khrushchev,William Taubman Pdf

The son of Nikita Khruschev offers a personal insight into the Khruschev era.

Author : Prof. William Taubman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471170047

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Khrushchev by Prof. William Taubman Pdf

'Taubman delivers a political and biographical tour de force, something approaching a definitive work' Simon Sebag-Montefiore, The Financial Times 'Outstanding, superbly gripping and surely definitive' Daily Telegraph 'Taubman has produced an utterly convincing picture of the contradictory Khrushchev, from his peasant origins and meteoric rise, through purges, politburo plotting, brave de-Stalinisation and the erratic, blustering, bull-in-a-china-shop style that eventually alienated his colleagues and took the world to the brink of Armageddon over Cuba' SUNDAY TIMES 'Unlikely to be surpassed any time soon either in richness or complexity . . . [A] monumental biography' New York Times William Taubman's brilliant biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts -- how the boy from a peasant background rose to the heights of power; how a single-minded, ambitious political player survived twenty years under Stalin; how he opened up to the West after Stalin's death and yet brought the world close to oblivion in the Cuban Missile Crisis. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a man constantly torn between benevolence and malevolence -- a man who made himself cultured and yet who could never really escape his image as a bullying country bumpkin (most famously demonstrated by his interruption of Macmillan's speech to the UN in 1960 by banging his shoe on the table -- the urbane Macmillan responded, 'Mr President, perhaps we could have a translation, I could not quite follow'). William Taubman has previously edited collections of Nikita Khrushchev's speeches and reminiscences and is completely immersed in this subject -- his biography is likely to remain the standard work for years to come.

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393245684

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Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman Pdf

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “Essential reading for the twenty-first [century].” —Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review In the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, found common ground with America’s arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.

Author : William Taubman,Jane Taubman
Publisher : Summit Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014575370

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Moscow Spring by William Taubman,Jane Taubman Pdf

Here is the remarkable story of how two Americans found themselves in the center of Gorbachev's Soviet revolution--a time as important, they believe, as John Reed's ten days that shook the world.

Author : Stephen V. Bittner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0801446066

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The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw by Stephen V. Bittner Pdf

Bittner explores how the neighborhood changed during the period of ideological relaxation under Khrushchev that came to be known as the thaw.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Murder and Madness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander N. Yakovlev
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300103220

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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev Pdf

He unhesitatingly names those individuals who bear responsibility for these catastrophic deaths, bringing into sharper focus than ever before the facts, the perpetrators, and the events of the Soviet Union's years of terror."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271023325

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918-1945 by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev Pdf

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 : Rebecca Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609092337

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State of Madness by Rebecca Reich Pdf

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.

Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev,Zhores A. Medvedev
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393008797

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Khrushchev, the Years in Power by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev,Zhores A. Medvedev Pdf

A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen by two prominent Soviet dissidents.

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0393301303

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Stalin's American Policy by William Taubman Pdf

A study of Russian foreign policy from 1941 to 1953 examines relations between Russia and America and the development of the Cold War