Khrushchev

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Acclaim for Roy Medvedev s Let History Judge:
"[Let History Judge]has the assured detail of an 'insider's story.' What is most exciting about it is that Medvedev is doing all this as a Russian, as a Marxist, and that he is giving us Stalin and Russia/rom the inside. We have never quite seen it like that before."
— Harrison Salisbury New York Times Book Review
"Some of the best informed Western and Russian emigre scholars did not have an inkling of the many significant facts discovered by Dr Medvedev, with the result that many of their hypotheses will now
have to be scrapped____[The contents] are so lively that the layman as
well as the specialist will read many chapters with bated breath."
—Paul Wohl Christian Science Monitor
"This work is a monumental achievement."
—Carll Tucker Saturday Review
ROY MEDVEDEV
KHRIlSHtH^
ROY MEDVEDEV
Written by the famed Russian dissident historian Roy Medvedev, khrushchev is the first major and comprehensive biography of one of the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Acclaim for Roy Medvedev s Let History Judge:
"[Let History Judge]has the assured detail of an 'insider's story.' What is most exciting about it is that Medvedev is doing all this as a Russian, as a Marxist, and that he is giving us Stalin and Russia/rom the inside. We have never quite seen it like that before."
— Harrison Salisbury New York Times Book Review
"Some of the best informed Western and Russian emigre scholars did not have an inkling of the many significant facts discovered by Dr Medvedev, with the result that many of their hypotheses will now
have to be scrapped____[The contents] are so lively that the layman as
well as the specialist will read many chapters with bated breath."
—Paul Wohl Christian Science Monitor
"This work is a monumental achievement."
—Carll Tucker Saturday Review
ROY MEDVEDEV
KHRIlSHtH^
ROY MEDVEDEV
Written by the famed Russian dissident historian Roy Medvedev, khrushchev is the first major and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet enigmatic figures. Though critical of Khrushchev, the book was written with the assistance of several members of his family, including his son Sergei, and it reveals much crucial new information about Khrushchev's private life and political battles.
Medvedev covers the whole of Khrushchev's public life from his entrance into the Communist Party amidst Stalin's purges to his fall fi-om power in 1964 and his death in 1971. He offers a rare view of what was going on inside Russia as Khrushchev denounced Stalin, as he confi-onted Kennedy over the Cuban missile crisis, and as he struggled for power with other Communist leaders inside and outside the Soviet Union.
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In Khrushchev, Medvedev conveys both the warmth and the arrogance of this controversial leader. Like Med-vedevs Let History Judge, this is a book that will force people in and out of Russia to reassess their understanding of that country's history.
Roy Medvedev is the author of Let History Judge, A Question of Madness, On Stalin and Stalinism, and other books. Although a dissident, Medvedev remains a committed Marxist and continues to live in the Soviet Union. Vissza