Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918-1945

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918-1945
Author: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 1016
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780271023328

Nikita Khrushchev&’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that &"we will bury you&" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career the motivation for Khrushchev&’s actions wasn&’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev&’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was &"we will bury colonialism&"). This is the first volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In this volume, Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and then Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. He vividly portrays life in Stalin's inner circle and among the generals who commanded the Soviet armies. Khrushchev&’s sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the value of this unique personal and historical document. Included among the Appendixes is Sergei Khrushchev&’s account of how the memoirs were created and smuggled abroad during his father&’s retirement.

Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower

Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
Author: Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 854
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780271021706

A unique account of Cold War history during the Khrushchev era by one who witnessed it firsthand at his father's side.

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Author: William Taubman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 929
Release: 2004-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393324842

Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.

Khrushchev Remembers

Khrushchev Remembers
Author: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Total Pages: 678
Release: 1970
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

An authentic record of Nikita Kruschev's words gathered from tapes, interviews, etc.

Khrushchev Remembers

Khrushchev Remembers
Author: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher:
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1974
Genre: Heads of state
ISBN: 9780233966106

The Russia Hand

The Russia Hand
Author: Strobe Talbott
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307432572

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A rich and revealing account of the turbulent relationship between the U.S. and Russia during the first post-Cold War years. . . . Essential for any understanding of this critical and even dangerous period.”—Elizabeth Drew “A fascinating memoir of a weirdly unpredictable world.”—The New York Review of Books In the eight years Bill Clinton was president, as Russia lurched from crisis to crisis, each one more horrifying than the last, Clinton and his foreign-policy team found they faced no greater task than helping to keep Russia stable and at peace with herself and her neighbors. Strobe Talbott’s mesmerizing account of this struggle reveals what a close-run thing this was, and how much the relationship between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin has been defined by the work of Bill Clinton. Written with a novelistic richness and energy, The Russia Hand is the first great book about war and peace in the post-Cold War world. It is also the one book anyone needs to understand Russia’s fateful transformation and future possibilities after ten years as a democracy.

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Author: Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-04-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393341534

"A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history." —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union.

Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev
Author: Melanie Ilic
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2009-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134023634

This book examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. With individual case studies exploring key aspects of Khrushchev's period of office, it offers an important new perspective on the Khrushchev era.

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev
Author: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 1138
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0271029358

This is the third and last volume of the only complete and fully reliable English-language version of the memoirs of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. In the first two volumes, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2005 and 2006, respectively, Khrushchev tells the story of his rise to power and his part in the fight against Hitler&’s invasion of the Soviet Union. He also discusses agriculture, the housing problem, and other issues of domestic policy, as well as defense and disarmament. This volume is devoted to international affairs. Khrushchev describes his dealings with foreign statesmen and his state visits to Britain, the United States, France, Scandinavia, India, Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, and Indonesia. In the first part, Khrushchev talks about relations between the Soviet Union and the Western powers. Of particular interest is his perspective on the Berlin, U-2, and Cuban missile crises. The second part focuses on the Communist world&—above all, the deterioration of relations with China and the tensions in Eastern Europe, including relations with Tito&’s Yugoslavia, Gomulka&’s Poland, and the 1956 Soviet intervention in Hungary. In the third part, Khrushchev discusses the search for allies in the Third World. The Appendixes contain biographies, a bibliography, and a chronology, as well as the reminiscences of Khrushchev&’s chief bodyguard about the visit to the United Nations in 1960 at which the famous &“shoe-banging&” incident occurred&—or, perhaps, did not occur.