General Information

Author/Creator

Shub, Anatole, 1928-2006.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Norton, [1970]

Physical Description

xvi, 474 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

In October 1961, Khrushchev ordered the removal of Stalin's body from the Red Square Mausoleum and hopes for a new freedom, justice and independence were aroused throughout the Soviet Union and its satellite states. Seven years later, these hopes were crushed when the Soviet Army invaded Czechoslovakia. Anatole Shub, an eminent American journalist, discusses how and why this happened. He recounts at first hand such dramatic incidents as Khrushchev's courtship of Tito, the trial of the Bulgarian United Nations delegate as a C.I.A. agent; Chou En-lai's weird visit to Rumania; the confrontation between Brezhnev and Dubcek at a railway men's club in Cierna-nad-Tisou; and the trials of young Russian democrats who bravely demonstrated against the Red Army invasion of Czechoslovakia. Combining eyewitness observation with expert research, Mr. Shub explains why Khrushchev encouraged, and his successors persecuted, such writers as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Voznesensky; why Rumanian Communists behave like Rumanians; why East Germany needs the wall; why Yugoslavia has gone its own way towards an open society while once-liberal Poland has been driven to harass Catholic bishops and Jewish intellectuals alike -- from the publisher.

Subjects

Subject

Europe, Eastern > Politics and government

Europe, Eastern > Foreign relations > Soviet Union

Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Europe, Eastern.

Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Anatole Shub.

Content

1. The other Europe -- 2. The model -- 3. The halfway house -- 4. Two for the seesaw -- 5. October afterglow -- 6. The haunted castle -- 7. Journey into Khrushchev's Russia -- 8. Balkan mystery -- 9. Goulash -- 10. Totul Pentru Tara -- 11. The spoils of war -- 12. Slavic counterpoint -- 13- Jubilee -- 14-March revolution -- 15. The sheathed knife -- 16. The trial -- 17. The empire's new clothes.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0393054195

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	327.47 SHU		-	-
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	327.47 SHU		General Stacks	-

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