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Khrushchev : A Political Life

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'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 WeeklyKhrushchev: 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.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
0333696336 / 9780333696330
Paperback / softback
19/05/1997
United Kingdom
English
350p.
22 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: 1994.