Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei Khrushchev

Provides a unique account of Cold War history during the Khrushchev era by one who witnessed it firsthand - Sergei, his only surviving son, in whom he often confided. In this book, Sergei tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side.

“This book is far more than a casual exculpatory portrait by a member of the familyFor years, Khrushchev the younger has studied his father’s leadership; in the late 1960s, he helped prepare the famous Khrushchev tapes. . . . He makes no excuses for his father and acknowledged his mistakes. Yet he also stresses the temper of the times, its mindset (including his own), and what the system permitted and required.”

—Robert Legvold Foreign Affairs

“Sergei Khrushchev is an intelligent observer; he had many opportunities to converse with his father, he overheard his father’s discussions with others, and kept a record of the events which he had witnessed. He writes straightforward prose, without literary pretensions. The most valuable information which this book provides bears on something that for all its importance rarely emerges from documents, namely, attitudes and ambiance—the imponderables that determine how statesmen act.”

—Richard Pipes Times Literary Supplement

Sergei Khrushchev is Senior Fellow at Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

William Taubman is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of Stalin's American Policy (1983) and Moscow's Silent Spring (1990). He is currently at work on a biography of Nikita Khushchev.

William C. Wohlforth is Assistant Professor of International Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. He is the author of Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions during the Cold War (1993) and editor of Witnesses to the End of the Cold War (1996) and Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, and Debates (forthcoming).

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ISBN 13	9780271021706
ISBN 10	0271021705
Title	Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
Author	Sergei Khrushchev
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2001-10-15
Number of pages	784
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