{"product_id":"memoirs-of-nikita-khrushchev-9780271058535","title":"Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKhrushchev 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 Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. His sincere reflections add to the value of this personal and historical document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most important political leaders of the twentieth century. Without his memoirs, neither the rise and fall of the Soviet Union nor the history of the Cold War can be fully understood. By dictating his memoirs and publishing them in the West, Khrushchev transformed himself from the USSR’s leader to one of its first dissidents. His remarkably candid recollections were a harbinger of glasnost to come. Like virtually all memoirs, his have a personal and political agenda, but even what might be called Khrushchev’s ‘myth of himself’ is vital for understanding how this colorful figure could place his contradictory stamp on his country and the world. The fact that the full text of Khrushchev’s memoirs will now be available in English is cause for rejoicing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—William Taubman,winner of the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his book \u003ci\u003eKhrushchev: The Man and His Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most extraordinary archives of the twentieth century”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Strobe Talbott,former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Khrushchev had a remarkable memory, and although the style and broad outline of what he has to say will be familiar to those who read the original two-volume English version issued in the early 1970s, the detail he provides here, particularly on the war, adds a great deal.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Robert Legvold \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“But his personal slant, conveyed in the World War II memoirs that make up half of this huge book, is important for understanding the political atmosphere during that colossal struggle. And the detail of his recall, without notes or references, is extraordinary.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Robert V. Daniels \u003ci\u003eThe New Leader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sergei Khrushchev (Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute, Brown Univ.) has edited an exquisitely detailed, amply documented, remarkably translated first volume of a proposed three-volume translation of his father’s memoirs, based on the four-volume Russian edition of 1999.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—C.W. Haury \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is a lot less high politics here than one would expect. Khrushchev’s focus is very often on chance encounters and small vignettes, often told at great length, rather than on reflections on the ‘big picture’ or revelations about key historical events. Yet it is this above all else that makes this work so readable, for it allows Khrushchev’s personality to come through in the text in all its contradictions and complexity.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—William Tompson \u003ci\u003ePolitical Science Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This volume far exceeds in detail earlier editions of the Khrushchev memoirs and for readers of this journal especially, his observations of the war years are intriguing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Paule Wanke \u003ci\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like all memoirs, this book has to be read with caution. This is a product of the love of Khrushchev’s son, Sergei, and it permeates the book. He has gone to great lengths to get this book published and keep the legacy of his father alive. As a result, the book is a s complete as one can hope. Inevitably there is also a negative side. Khrushchev’s role in the Stalinist terror in Ukraine, for example, is not discussed. Even the index uses a conditional statement: ‘Khrushchev’s alleged purging’ in Ukraine (p.932). Despite this and other shortcomings, this is a book of enormous importance that no one interested in the Soviet Union can afford to miss.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Hiroaki Kuromiya \u003ci\u003eHarvard Ukainian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptions to Photographs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslators Preface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors Foreword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrei Bitov. The Baldest and the Boldest \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and Acronyms  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Memoirs \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. The Beginning of the Road \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Little About Myself \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fourteenth Party Conference \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Few Words About the NEP \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fifteenth Party Congress \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Move to Kharkov \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Move to Kiev \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Industrial Academy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersonal Acquaintance with Stalin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoscow Workdays \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Kirov Assassination \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome Consequences of the Kirov Assassination \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Ukraine Again \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ukraine-Moscow (Crossroads of the 1930s) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Second World War Approaches \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Beginning of the Second World War  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvents on the Eve of War \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. The Great Patriotic War \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Difficult Summer of 1941 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople and Events of Summer and Fall 1941 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1942: From Winter to Summer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the Ruins of Stalingrad \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurn of the Tide at Stalingrad \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Road to Rostov \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the Battle of Kursk and at Its Beginning \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the Dnieper!  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKiev Is Ours Again! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe Liberate the Ukraine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForward to Victory! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostwar Reflections \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Far East After the Great Patriotic War \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWar Memoirs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendices \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Short Biography of N. S. Khrushchev \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL. Lasochko. The Khrushchev Family Line: A Historical Note \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSergei Khrushchev. The History of the Creation and Publication of the Khrushchev \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemoirs (1967-1999) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversation with N. S. Khrushchev at the Party Control Committee \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiographies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400789270871,"sku":"9780271058535","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271058535.jpg?v=1730471582","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/memoirs-of-nikita-khrushchev-9780271058535","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}