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Title: Khrushchev by Ro-Ialeksandrovich Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev, Andrew R. Durkin ISBN: 0-231-03939-5 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1976 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: A One-Sided Look at Khrushchev
Comment: A more appropriate title for this book would have been "Khrushchev: The Economic and Agricultural Decisions". I bought this book hoping to get insight into Nikita Khrushchev's years in power. Unfortunately, the book focuses too much on Khrushchev's agricultural decisions.
Little mention is made of Khrushchev's foreign policy. His visit to America is briefly mentioned. The deteriorating relationship between the Soviet Union and China is only discussed at a slightly greater length. Perhaps the best chapters are the ones that show Khrsuhchev's rise to power. From the position he held prior to Stalin's death, he seemed to be an unlikely leader. However, he quickly gained control and popularity attaining the leadership status. Much of the support Khrushchev gained was due the agricultural success he initiated under Stalin and his condemnation of Stalin's brutal leadership after Stalin's death. While Khrushchev did many positive things for the Soviet Union, the economic and specifically agricultural failures he experienced as a leader haunt his reputation.
I would only suggest this book if you are interested it the economic and agricultural policy of the Soviet Union during this period. Aside from these points, the book has little else to offer.
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Title: The Gorbachev Phenomenon: A Historical Interpretation by Moshe Lewin ISBN: 0520074297 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Darkness at Noon by ARTHUR KOESTLER ISBN: 0553265954 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Vision Unfulfilled : Russia and the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century by John Thompson ISBN: 066928291X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $63.16 |
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Title: Revolutionary Russia, 1917 by John M. Thompson ISBN: 0881339326 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Stalin Revolution : Foundations of the Totalitarian Era by Robert Daniels ISBN: 0669416932 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $25.16 |
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