Nikita Khrushchev: And the Creation of a Superpower

Khrushchev, Sergei N. With Shirley Benson {Translator} and William C. Wohlforth {Annotations By}

ISBN 10: 0271019271 / ISBN 13: 9780271019277

Verlag: The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 2000

Beschreibung

"This book does not aspire to shed light on all the events of those years. I write only about those events I was fated to witness. I have tried to avoid drawing conclusions or judging my own father-that's not appropriate for a son. However, I very much much hope that what I have written will make it possible to restore a connection between those times and today." This book has 765 pages and is illustrated. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 025148

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Titel: Nikita Khrushchev: And the Creation of a ...

Verlag: The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Erscheinungsdatum: 2000

Einband: Cloth

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: First Printing

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"Sergei Khrushchev is an intelligent observer; he had many opportunities to converse with his father, he overheard his father's discussions with others, and kept a record of the events which he had witnessed. He writes straightforward prose, without literary pretensions. The most valuable information which this book provides bears on something that for all its importance rarely emerges from documents, namely, attitudes and ambiance-the imponderables that determine how statesmen act."-Richard Pipes, Times Literary Supplement "This book is far more than a casual exculpatory portrait by a member of the family. For years, Khrushchev the younger has studied his father's leadership; in the late 1960s, he helped prepare the famous Khrushchev tapes. . . . He makes no excuses for his father and acknowledged his mistakes. Yet he also stresses the temper of the times, its mindset (including his own), and what the system permitted and required."-Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs