Name: Khrushchev: A Political Life
ISBN: 978-0-333-59927-3

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Authors:

William Tompson

William Tompson

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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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.

Keywords

cold war
Political Life
Russia
Ukraine
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
russian and post-soviet politics

Reviews

'a vivid startling biography ... drawing on a wealth of untapped material from Moscow archives ... This reassessment makes a cogent case for Khrushchev's regime as a harbinger of Gorbachev's perestroika' - Publishers Weekly

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Khrushchev: A Political Life
Authors: William Tompson
Series Title: St Antony's Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-59927-3Published: 07 December 1994
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 341

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