General Information

Author/Creator

Taubman, William, 1940-

Language

English.

Published

New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., c2003.

Physical Description

xx, 876 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

Following the works on Stalin by Dmitrij Volkogonov and Hans-Dietrich Löwe, a major biography of Khrushchev has now also been published. William Taubman, professor at Amherst College in the USA, has worked in the Moscow archives for more than ten years, evaluating the relevant literature, especially the memoirs of Russian contemporaries in administration, politics and the military, and interviewing contemporary witnesses in Russia and in the West. (...)

Subjects

Subject

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.

Heads of state > Soviet Union > Biography.

Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

William Taubman.

Note

Maps on lining papers.

Content

1. The Fall: October 1964 -- 2. Kalinovka's Own: 1894-1908 -- 3. Making It as a Metalworker: 1908-1917 -- 4. To Be or Not to Be an Apparatchik: 1918-1929 -- 5. Stalin's Pet: 1929-1937 -- 6. Stalin's Viceroy: 1938-1941 -- 7. Khrushchev at War: 1941-1944 -- 8. Ukrainian Viceroy Again: 1944-1949 -- 9. The Heir Nonapparent: 1949-1953 -- 10. Almost Triumphant: 1953-1955 -- 11. From the Secret Speech to the Hungarian Revolution: 1956 -- 12. The Jaws of Victory: 1956-1957 -- 13. The Wider World: 1917-1957 -- 14. Alone at the Top: 1957-1960 -- 15. The Berlin Crisis and the American Trip: 1958-1959 -- 16. From the U-2 to the UN Shoe: April-September 1960 -- 17. Khrushchev and Kennedy: 1960-1961 -- 18. "A Communist Society Will Be Just about Built by 1980": 1961-1962 -- 19. The Cuban Cure-all: 1962 -- 20. The Unraveling: 1962-1964 -- 21. After the Fall: 1964-1971.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0393051447

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.085/2/092 TAU		General Stacks	-

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