Bibliograph

Khrushchev, the man and his era, William Taubman

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Khrushchev, the man and his era, William Taubman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 793-824) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Khrushchev

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50124301

Responsibility statement

William Taubman

Sub title

the man and his era

Summary

Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Ukraine, Taubman (political science, Amherst College) writes a thorough biography of one of the most complex and important political figures of the 20th century whose life and career spanned revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, the Cold War, Stalinism, and post-Stalinism. Includes two sections of good quality b & w photographs

Table Of Contents

The fall : October 1964 -- Kalinovka's own : 1894-1908 -- Making it as a metalworker : 1908-1917 -- To be or not to be an apparatchik : 1918-1929 -- Stalin's pet : 1929-1937 -- Stalin's viceroy : 1938-1941 -- Khrushchev at war : 1941-1944 -- Ukrainian viceroy again : 1944-1949 -- The heir nonapparent : 1949-1953 -- Almost triumphant : 1953-1955 -- From the secret speech to the Hungarian Revolution : 1956 -- The jaws of victory : 1956-1957 -- The wider world : 1917-1957 -- Alone at the top : 1957-1960 -- The Berlin crisis and the American trip : 1958-1959 -- From the U-2 to the UN shoe : April-September 1960 -- Khrushchev and Kennedy : 1960-1961 -- "A Communist society will be just about built by 1980" : 1961-1962 -- The Cuban cure-all : 1962 -- The unraveling : 1962-1964 -- After the fall : 1964-1971

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