| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xx, 876 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Local Note |
Pulitzer Prize winner biography/autobiography, 2004 |
| Note |
Maps on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 793-824) and index. |
| Contents |
The fall : October 1964 -- Kalinovka's own : 1894-1908 -- Making it as a metalworker : 1908-1917 -- To be or not to be an apparatchik : 1918-1929 -- Stalin's pet : 1929-1937 -- Stalin's viceroy : 1938-1941 -- Khrushchev at war : 1941-1944 -- Ukrainian viceroy again : 1944-1949 -- The heir nonapparent : 1949-1953 -- Almost triumphant : 1953-1955 -- From the secret speech to the Hungarian Revolution : 1956 -- The jaws of victory : 1956-1957 -- The wider world : 1917-1957 -- Alone at the top : 1957-1960 -- The Berlin crisis and the American trip : 1958-1959 -- From the U-2 to the UN shoe : April-September 1960 -- Khrushchev and Kennedy : 1960-1961 -- "A Communist society will be just about built by 1980" : 1961-1962 -- The Cuban cure-all : 1962 -- The unraveling : 1962-1964 -- After the fall : 1964-1971. |
| Subject |
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.
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Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.
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Pulitzer Prize winner biography/autobiography
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| ISBN |
0393051447 $35.00 |
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