General Information

Uniform Title

Nikita Khrushchev.

Author/Creator

Khrushchev, Sergei, 1935-2020.

Language

English.

Published

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2000.

Physical Description

xviii, 765 p., [64] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"How did Khrushchev manage not only to survive Stalin but to succeed him? What led him to denounce his former master? How could a man of minimal formal education direct the affairs of a vast intercontinental empire in the nuclear age? Why did Khrushchev's attempt to ease East-West tensions result in two of the worst crises of the Cold War in Berlin and Cuba? To resolve these and other contradictions, we need more than policy documents from archives and memoirs from associates. We need first-hand testimony by family members who knew Khrushchev best, especially by his only surviving son, Sergei, in whom he often confided"--foreword by William Taubman

Subjects

Subject

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.

Khrushchev, Sergei, 1935-2020.

Heads of state > Soviet Union > Biography.

World politics > 1945-

Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Sergei N. Khrushchev ; translated by Shirley Benson ; foreword by William Taubman ; annotations by William C. Wohlforth.

Note

Abridged and translated from: Nikita Khrushchev : krizisy i rakety.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0271019271

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.0852092 KHR		General Stacks	-

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