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c| DLC
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b| eng
a| DK275.K5
b| K4874213 2000
a| Khrushchev, Sergei,
d| 1935-2020.
a| Nikita Khrushchev.
l| English
a| Nikita Khrushchev and the creation of a superpower /
c| Sergei N. Khrushchev ; translated by Shirley Benson ; foreword by William Taubman ; annotations by William C. Wohlforth.
a| University Park, Pa. :
b| Pennsylvania State University Press,
c| c2000.
a| xviii, 765 p., [64] p. of plates :
b| ill. ;
c| 24 cm.
a| Abridged and translated from: Nikita Khrushchev : krizisy i rakety.
a| Includes bibliographical references and index.
a| "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
a| Donation of Anatole Shub
a| Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich,
d| 1894-1971.
a| Khrushchev, Sergei,
d| 1935-2020.
a| Heads of state
z| Soviet Union
x| Biography.
a| World politics
y| 1945-
a| Soviet Union
x| Politics and government
y| 1953-1985.
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