ISBN10: 0393051447, ISBN13: 9780393051445, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company] Hardcover
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New York: W W Norton & Co Ltd, Date: 2003. 396pp/illus. Thanks to Soviet secrecy, little was known about former premier Khrushchev during his career or after his ousting. Since the collapse of the USSR, archives have been declassified, allowing access to his memoirs and those of witnesses. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2003. W W Norton & Co Ltd ISBN 0393051447 9780393051445 [US]

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ISBN10: 0393051447, ISBN13: 9780393051445, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Remembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, he managed to retain his humanity. His daring attempt to reform Communism-by denouncing Stalin and releasing and rehabilitating millions of his victims-prepared the ground for its eventual collapse. His awkward efforts to ease the Cold War triggered its most dangerous crises in Berlin and Cuba. The ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left his contradictory stamp on his country and the world. More than that, his life and career hold up a mirror to the Soviet age as a whole: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. The first full and comprehensive biography of Khrushchev, and the first of any Soviet leader to reflect the full range of sources that have become available since the USSR collapsed, this book weaves together Khrushchev's personal triumphs and tragedy with those of his country. It draws on newly opened archives in Russia and Ukraine, the author's visits to places where Khrushchev lived and work, plus extensive interviews with ...
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ISBN10: 0393051447, ISBN13: 9780393051445, [publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc] Hardcover 768 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.
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