Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
Author: Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 849
ISBN-13: 0271043466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 849
ISBN-13: 0271043466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George W. Breslauer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 113487572X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader. Central issues of Soviet domestic politics are examined: investment priorities, incentive policy, administrative reform, and political participation. The author rejects the conventional images of Khrushchev as an embattled consumer advocate and decentraliser, and of Brezhnev’s leadership as dull and conservative. He looks at how they dealt with the task of devising programs that combined the post-Stalin elite’s goals of consumer satisfaction and expanded political participation with traditional Soviet values.
Author: Carl A. Linden
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →**** Previous edition (1966) cited in BCL3. This updated edition follows the implications of Khrushchev's earlier reform efforts for subsequent regimes through Gorbachev, raising intriguing parallels between the Khrushchev and Gorbachev regimes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: William Taubman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-04-17
Total Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 0393081729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Jeremy Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-01-25
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1136831827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, and provides an overview of the internal development of the Soviet Union in this period, locating it in the broader context of Soviet history.
Author: James M. Goldgeier
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780801848667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing connections between the domestic political experiences of these leaders and their behavior toward the United States during key foreign policy events, Goldgeier offers fresh interpretations of the Berlin blockade crisis of 1948, the Cuban missile crisis of 1961, the Middle East war of 1973, and German reunification in 1989-90. He argues that the defining moment in the development of a Soviet leader's style came during the period when the leader acted to consolidate power and neutralize adversaries in order to succeed a dead or deposed leader. Success in this period confirmed the effectiveness of the leader's first truly independent political action and shaped his distinctive political style - a style that reappeared in international bargaining.
Author: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 872
ISBN-13: 0271028610
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 second volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his story up to the close of World War II. In the first section of this second volume, he covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation of the immediate aftermath of the war to Stalin&’s death, the subsequent power struggle, and the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to Khrushchev&’s recollections and thoughts about various domestic and international problems. In the second and third sections, he recalls the virgin lands and other agricultural campaigns and his dealings with nuclear scientists and weapons designers. He also considers other sectors of the economy, specifically construction and the provision of consumer goods, administrative reform, and questions of war, peace, and disarmament. In the last section, he discusses the relations between the party leadership and the intelligentsia. Included among the Appendixes are the notebooks of Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, Khrushchev&’s wife.
Author: George W. Breslauer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1134875797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader. Central issues of Soviet domestic politics are examined: investment priorities, incentive policy, administrative reform, and political participation. The author rejects the conventional images of Khrushchev as an embattled consumer advocate and decentraliser, and of Brezhnev’s leadership as dull and conservative. He looks at how they dealt with the task of devising programs that combined the post-Stalin elite’s goals of consumer satisfaction and expanded political participation with traditional Soviet values.
Author: William Tompson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1349256080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard biography provides much new information on Khrushchev's life and career. Khrushchev's ultimate failure to realise his vision of the Soviet future is linked to the unrealistic optimism of that vision as well as to the contradictions inherent in Khrushchev's views and policies.