Penn State University Press. Used - Good. EX LIBRARY COPY Former Library book. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects. Penn State University Press ISBN 0271019271 9780271019277 [US]

Penn State University Press, Date: 2000. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2000. Penn State University Press ISBN 0271019271 9780271019277 [US]

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, Date: 2000-03. Hardcover. Good. 2000. Pennsylvania State Univ Pr ISBN 0271019271 9780271019277 [US]

University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Date: 2000. CD2 - A first edition (no additional printing) hardcover book SIGNED and dated by S. Khrushchev (author) on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has label on the front, some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, some wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated by Shirley Benson, Foreword by William Tubman, Annotations by William C. Wohlforth. 9.5"x6.5", 765 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews, and memoirs. (A partial version of his memoirs was published in three volumes in 1970, 1974, and 1990, and a complete version was published in Russia in 1999 and will appear in an English translation to be published by Penn State Press.) But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. "How did Khrushchev manage not only to survive Stalin but to succeed him? What led him to denounce his former master [an event that some interpreters herald as the first act in the drama that led to the end of the USSR]? How could a man of minimal formal education direct the affairs of a vast ...

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, Date: 2000. Book. As New. Cloth. Second Printing. Thick large octavo, black cloth covered boards with silver spine titles. 765 pp. including index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Written by the Soviet leader's son. A tight, clean volume with very fresh cloth, brilliant white interior, unmarked and unread in a very tight, crisp, sharp, glossy, unclipped dust jacket. Finie in fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW.. 2000. Pennsylvania State University Press ISBN 0271019271 9780271019277 [US]

University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press 2000 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good jacket CD2-A first edition (no additional printing) hardcover book SIGNED and dated by S. Khrushchev (author) on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has label on the front, some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, some wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated by Shirley Benson, Foreword by William Tubman, Annotations by William C. Wohlforth. 9.5"x6.5", 765 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews, and memoirs. (A partial version of his memoirs was published in three volumes in 1970, 1974, and 1990, and a complete version was published in Russia in 1999 and will appear in an English translation to be published by Penn State Press. ) But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. "How did Khrushchev manage not only to survive Stalin but to succeed him? What led him to denounce his former master [an event that some interpreters herald as the first act in the drama that led to the end of the USSR]? How could a man of minimal formal education direct the ...

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, Date: 2000-03-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed. Flat-signed by author in black ink opposite title page above picture of NK and dated June 4, 2000; tight clean and unmarked, book has but one flaw which is that some wax from a candle dripped a little on top edge and there is a noticeable small spot of was on edge of text block where top meets side; overall Very Good/Very Good. 2000. Pennsylvania State Univ Pr ISBN 0271019271 9780271019277 [US]

ISBN10: 0271019271, ISBN13: 9780271019277, [publisher: The Pennsylvania State University] Hardcover First Edition In Fine condition with a Fine dust jacket. First Edition, signed and dated "Jan. 23, 2001" by the author (who is Nikita Khrushchev's son) on the title page in blue pen. We pack all our books with care and ship in new boxes.
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University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Date: 2000. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xviii, 765, [1] pages. Illustrations. Includes Foreword by William Taubman, as well as Preface, Prologue, Epilogue: Stagnation, and Index. Annotations by William C. Wohlforth. Part one includes Start, Acceleration, Testing, and Breakthrough; Part two includes The Race, Crisis, and Departure. There is also an Epilogue: Stagnation, as well as an Index. The book is inscribed by the author, Sergei N. Khrushchev, on the half title page. Signature reads: To Joyce, Sergei N. Khrushchev, July 25, 2001. This is a fascinating portrait of Nikita Khrushchev, a man of immense vitality, a fervent Communist, convinced that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States, and the process by which he began subconsciously to understand that the system itself did not work. In this book, Sergei Khrushchev tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side, and this is his most important contribution. . More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews, and memoirs. (A partial version of his memoirs was published in three volumes in 1970, 1974, and 1990, and a complete version was published in Russia in 1999 and will appear in an English translation to be published by Penn State ...

ISBN10: 0271019271, ISBN13: 9780271019277, [publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr] Hardcover 765 pages. 12.75x6.75x2.25 inches. In Stock.
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