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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081729
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev: The Man and His Era written by William Taubman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-17 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, Khrushchev nevertheless retained his humanity: his daring attempt to reform communism prepared the ground for its eventual collapse; and his awkward efforts to ease the cold war triggered its most dangerous crises. This is the first 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. Combining a page-turning historical narrative with penetrating political and psychological analysis, this book brims with the life and excitement of a man whose story personified his era.

Khrushchev on Khrushchev

Author : Sergeĭ Khrushchev
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316491945
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev on Khrushchev written by Sergeĭ Khrushchev and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of Nikita Khruschev offers a personal insight into the Khruschev era.

Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower

Author : Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271043466
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower written by Sergei N. Khrushchev and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245683
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Gorbachev: His Life and Times written by William Taubman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “Essential reading for the twenty-first [century].” —Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review In the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, found common ground with America’s arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.

Khrushchev

Author : Prof. William Taubman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471170041
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev written by Prof. William Taubman and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Taubman delivers a political and biographical tour de force, something approaching a definitive work' Simon Sebag-Montefiore, The Financial Times 'Outstanding, superbly gripping and surely definitive' Daily Telegraph 'Taubman has produced an utterly convincing picture of the contradictory Khrushchev, from his peasant origins and meteoric rise, through purges, politburo plotting, brave de-Stalinisation and the erratic, blustering, bull-in-a-china-shop style that eventually alienated his colleagues and took the world to the brink of Armageddon over Cuba' SUNDAY TIMES 'Unlikely to be surpassed any time soon either in richness or complexity . . . [A] monumental biography' New York Times William Taubman's brilliant biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts -- how the boy from a peasant background rose to the heights of power; how a single-minded, ambitious political player survived twenty years under Stalin; how he opened up to the West after Stalin's death and yet brought the world close to oblivion in the Cuban Missile Crisis. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a man constantly torn between benevolence and malevolence -- a man who made himself cultured and yet who could never really escape his image as a bullying country bumpkin (most famously demonstrated by his interruption of Macmillan's speech to the UN in 1960 by banging his shoe on the table -- the urbane Macmillan responded, 'Mr President, perhaps we could have a translation, I could not quite follow'). William Taubman has previously edited collections of Nikita Khrushchev's speeches and reminiscences and is completely immersed in this subject -- his biography is likely to remain the standard work for years to come.

Murder and Madness

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder and Madness written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moscow Spring

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : Summit Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Moscow Spring written by William Taubman and published by Summit Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the remarkable story of how two Americans found themselves in the center of Gorbachev's Soviet revolution--a time as important, they believe, as John Reed's ten days that shook the world.

Khrushchev, the Years in Power

Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393008791
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev, the Years in Power written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen by two prominent Soviet dissidents.

Stalin

Author : Adam Bruno Ulam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781850431473
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Stalin written by Adam Bruno Ulam and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Like a dread spirit he hovered over us', wrote a Soviet poet in 1960, referring to the man whose name is inextricably linked with Soviet Russia and Communism. In this, the classic biography of Joseph Stalin, Adam B. Ulam explores the secret of his power, the hold his memory still has over the imagination, the suffering he inflicted upon his own society, the unprecedented triumphs achieved by the Soviet Union under his leadership and the mysteries surrounding his death. Seeking answers not only in the character and life of Stalin himself, but in the history of the movement and society in which his career unfolded, Ulam has produced what is arguably the most incisive and revealing biography of one of history's most fascinating figures.

The Year I Was Peter the Great

Author : Marvin Kalb
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815731620
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Year I Was Peter the Great written by Marvin Kalb and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a time when Stalin’s dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, then the unpredictable leader of the Soviet Union. He astounded everyone by denouncing the one figure who, up to that time, had been hailed as a “genius,” a wizard of communism—Josef Stalin himself. Now, suddenly, this once unassailable god was being portrayed as a “madman” whose idiosyncratic rule had seriously undermined communism and endangered the Soviet state. This amazing switch from hero to villain lifted a heavy overcoat of fear from the backs of ordinary Russians. It also quickly led to anti-communist uprisings in Eastern Europe, none more bloody and challenging than the one in Hungary, which Soviet troops crushed at year’s end. Marvin Kalb, then a young diplomatic attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, observed this tumultuous year that foretold the end of Soviet communism three decades later. Fluent in Russian, a doctoral candidate at Harvard, he went where few other foreigners would dare go, listening to Russian students secretly attack communism and threaten rebellion against the Soviet system, traveling from one end of a changing country to the other and, thanks to his diplomatic position, meeting and talking with Khrushchev, who playfully nicknamed him Peter the Great. In this, his fifteenth book, Kalb writes a fascinating eyewitness account of a superpower in upheaval and of a people yearning for an end to dictatorship. "

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

Author : Alexander N. Yakovlev
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300103229
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia written by Alexander N. Yakovlev and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He unhesitatingly names those individuals who bear responsibility for these catastrophic deaths, bringing into sharper focus than ever before the facts, the perpetrators, and the events of the Soviet Union's years of terror."--BOOK JACKET.

The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

Author : Stephen V. Bittner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801446061
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw written by Stephen V. Bittner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bittner explores how the neighborhood changed during the period of ideological relaxation under Khrushchev that came to be known as the thaw.

Stalin's American Policy

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393301304
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's American Policy written by William Taubman and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1983-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Russian foreign policy from 1941 to 1953 examines relations between Russia and America and the development of the Cold War

Khrushchev and the First Russian Spring

Author : Fedor Burlat︠s︡kiĭ
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev and the First Russian Spring written by Fedor Burlat︠s︡kiĭ and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to glastnost and perestroika began with Nikita Khrushchev. It was his 1956 "secret speech" to the Twentieth Party Congress that, for the first time, publicly acknowledged the horrors of Stalinism and sparked the dismantling of the stultifying Stalin regime. One of Khrushchev's closest advisors has now written the true story of his rule. 12 pages of halftones.

High Noon in the Cold War

Author : Max Frankel
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0345466713
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book High Noon in the Cold War written by Max Frankel and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis analyzes the roles, objectives, and actions of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the October 1962 showdown between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

The House of Government

Author : Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888174
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The House of Government written by Yuri Slezkine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

State of Madness

Author : Rebecca Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092333
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book State of Madness written by Rebecca Reich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.