Memoirs Of Nikita Khrushchev Commissar 1918 1945

Author : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 Khrushchev&’s sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the value of this unique personal and historical document.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 : Sergei Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Heads of state
ISBN : 0271058536

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev Pdf

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 Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. His sincere reflections add to the value of this personal and historical document.

Author : Nikita S. Chruščëv
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271023325

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Memoirs by Nikita S. Chruščëv Pdf

Author : Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Martin A. Allen
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120936831

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Himmler's Secret War by Martin A. Allen Pdf

"With a combination of personal interviews including several with leading Nazis and with Himmler's daughter, Gudrun Burwitz, and the use of previously unseen documents, Allen presents the whole Nazi high command in a fresh light, demonstrating how Hitler was often manipulated and sometimes sidelined. But perhaps of equal interest is the inside story of secret operations conducted by the Political Warfare Executive, empowered by Churchill to fight a war with weapons of destabilisation and misinformation in support of the oven military campaigns. Allen portrays Himmler's ever more desperate efforts to secretly negotiate his political survival with the Allies, as Hitler's war machine collapses. This book has one more revelation to make, as Allen rewrites history with his account of the true circumstances of Himmler's dramatic death."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Sergeĭ Khrushchev,William Taubman
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Norman Naimark,Silvio Pons,Sophie Quinn-Judge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107133548

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The Cambridge History of Communism by Norman Naimark,Silvio Pons,Sophie Quinn-Judge Pdf

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow's control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956; Communist reform movements; the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance; the growth of Communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and the effects of the Sino-Soviet split on world Communism. Chapters explore the cultures of Communism in the United States, Western Europe and China, and the conflicts engendered by nationalism and the continued need for support from Moscow. With the danger of a new Cold War developing between former and current Communist states and the West, this account of the roots, development and dissolution of the socialist bloc is essential reading.

Author : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Armies
ISBN : 9781428915831

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Toward Combined Arms Warfare by Jonathan Mallory House Pdf

Author : W. Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000031087872

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Passage Through Armageddon by W. Bruce Lincoln Pdf

Invaded by foreign armies and threatened by the terrors of civil strife, Russia's leaders mobilized more than fifteen million fighting men between 1914 and 1918 only to find that at least a quarter of them had no boots, rifles, or ammunition. With field casualties soaring into the millions, scourges of starvation and disease joined the enemy's guns to double and treble Russia's human losses. Never in modern history had war so devastated a nation. Recounting the tale of the Russians' passage through the shattering experience of the First World War and the revolutions of 1917, W. Bruce Lincoln offers a profoundly intelligent and detailed chronology of the watershed events and devastating hardships that led to the Bolshevik Revolution. Mining an abundance of resources, including letters, diaries, memoirs, government reports, military dispatches, and testimony given to the revolution's first Supreme Commission of Inquiry, he allows the reader to step directly into army headquarters, state council chambers, boudoirs, trenches, and underground revolutionary hideaways of the men and women who shaped the events of this crucial era.

Author : Jonathan Brunstedt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498753

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The Soviet Myth of World War II by Jonathan Brunstedt Pdf

Provides a bold new interpretation of the origins and development of World War II's remembrance in the USSR.

Author : Geogry Zhukov
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473831834

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Marshal of Victory by Geogry Zhukov Pdf

The complete and unredacted autobiography by Stalin’s star general, chronicling his many campaigns throughout WWII. At Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin—as well as virtually all the principal battles on the Eastern Front during the Second World War—Georgy Zhukov played a major role. He was Stalin’s pre-eminent general throughout the conflict, and he chronicled his brilliant career as he saw it in this essential text. Here, Zhukov reveals intriguing insights into who he was, both as a man and as a commander. He also delves into the military thinking and decision-making at the highest level of the Soviet command—making this volume essential reading for anyone studying the conflict in the east. This edition of the memoirs, which were first published in heavily censored form, features an introduction by Professor Geoffrey Roberts in which he summarizes the additional material omitted from previous editions. He also provides, in an appendix, a translation of Zhukov’s account of the 1953-7 period as well as an interview with Zhukov that has previously not been available in English.

Author : Vitaliĭ Rapoport,I︠U︡riĭ Alekseev,Vladimir G. Treml,Bruce Adams
Publisher : Durham : Duke University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012404623

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High Treason by Vitaliĭ Rapoport,I︠U︡riĭ Alekseev,Vladimir G. Treml,Bruce Adams Pdf

Author : Nikita S. Chruščëv
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271028610

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Memoirs by Nikita S. Chruščëv Pdf

Author : Zara Witkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520351080

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An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia by Zara Witkin Pdf

In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia. His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucracy—entrenched planners who snubbed new methods; construction bosses whose cover-ups led to terrible disasters; engineers who plagiarized Witkin's work; workers whose pride was defeated. Punctuating this document is the tale of Witkin's passion for Tsesarskaia and the record of his friendships with journalist Eugene Lyons, planner Ernst May, and others. Witkin felt beaten in the end by the lethargy and corruption choking the greatest social experiment in history, and by a pervasive evil—the suppression of human rights and dignity by a relentless dictatorship. Finally breaking his spirit was the dissolution of his romance with Emma, his "Dark Goddess." In his lively introduction, Michael Gelb provides the historical context of Witkin's experience, details of his personal life, and insights offered by Emma Tsesarskaia in an interview in 1989.