| Khrushchev: The Years in Power Contributor(s): Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich (Author), Medvedev, Zhores a. (With), Cohen, Stephen F. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0393008797 ISBN-13: 9780393008791 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1978 Annotation: From the position he held prior to Stalin's death, he seemed to be an unlikely leader. However, Khrushchev 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 achieved positive things for the Soviet Union, the economic, specifically agricultural failures he experienced as leader haunt his reputation. This book focuses on Khrushchev's those agricultural decisions with little mention being made of his foreign policy. His American visit is briefly mentioned, while the relationship between the Soviet Union and China is discussed at a slightly greater length. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 320.947 |
| LCCN: 77017560 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Series: Norton Library (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.01" W x 8.02" (0.55 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This portrait by two noted Soviet authors and dissidents of Nikita S. Khrushchev's years in power reveals the former leader of the Soviet Union as a decisive, even impetuous, innovator, a side of him little known before in the West. Khrushchev emerges as a man impatient to destroy Stalinism, to remedy defects in the Soviet system, and to solve the problems of Soviet agriculture. As no other book before it, Khrushchev brings into focus the many sides of the shrewd and complex Soviet leader and the interrelation between Soviet politics and agricultural policy that brought about his removal from power. |
Contributor Bio(s): Medvedev, Zhores: - Zhores Medvedev is now a senior research scientist for the National Institute for Medical Research in London.Medvedev, Zhores: - Zhores Medvedev (1925--2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian, and dissident. He was the author of numerous books including Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, Legacy of Chernobyl, and Khrushchev: The Years in Power. |