Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Schecter, Jerrold L. (translator and editor); Luchkov, Vyacheslav V.

Verlag: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990

Beschreibung

Fine condition black cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes Foreword by Strobe Talbott; Appendix: Chronology of Khrushchev's Career; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and a black-and-white map. "Glasnost has made possible the publication of new material from one of the most extraordinary archives of the twentieth century, the memoirs of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev. The earlier volumes . established the memoirs as the single most comprehensive, candid, and authoritative firsthand account of the inner workings of the Kremlin leadership. Now there is more ." - from the Foreword by Strobe Talbott. "When the tapes dictated by Nikita Khrushchev in retirement first made their way to the West, there were key gaps in the narrative. Khrushchev himself had authorized the deletions, for apparent political reasons. Two decades would pass before those gaps could be filled. Now, newly released material provides provocative information. Among the revelations: Stalin confirmed the "very significant" contribution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the Soviet atomic bomb project; In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, Fidel Castro urged Khrushchev to launch a nuclear attack on the United States; Khrushchev wanted to return to Japan islands in the Kuril chain seized by the USSR at the end of World War II, and thereby restore normal relations between the two countries. The new tapes also provide valuable information on the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and its secret protocol "giving" Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia to the Soviet Union; fascinating background on the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Leonid Brezhnev's subsequent suppression of the author and his works; revealing and acid asides on Brezhnev and his allies; and Khrushchev's candid thoughts and doubts on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the crushing of the Prague Spring. Fascinating historical material, The Glasnost Tapes offers a wealth of insight into the present turbulent and shifting situation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003998

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes [...

Verlag: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Erscheinungsdatum: 1990

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition