SIGNED Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei Khrushchev

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“Very good condition, includes letter from signing event”
Type
Biography & memoir
Signed By
Sergei N. Khrushchev
Signed
Yes
Special Attributes
Collector's Edition
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Inscribed
Yes
Subjects
History & Military
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Subject
Soviet Union
ISBN
9780271019277

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Pennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0271019271
ISBN-13
9780271019277
eBay Product ID (ePID)
296315

Product Key Features

Book Title
Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
Number of Pages
784 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 20th Century, World / General, International Relations / General, Presidents & Heads of State, Historical
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Sergei Khrushchev
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
50.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-054931
Reviews
&"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 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 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, "This book is far more than a casual exculpatory portrait by a member of the family. For 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, "This book is far more than a casual exculpatory portrait by a member of the family. For 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, &"This book is far more than a casual exculpatory portrait by a member of the family. For 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, "This book is far more than a casual exculpatory portrait by a member of the family. For 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
Number of Volumes
2 vols.; set
Synopsis
More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews, and memoirs. (A partial version of his memoirs was published in three volumes in 1970, 1974, and 1990, and a complete version was published in Russia in 1999 and will appear in an English translation to be published by Penn State Press.) But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. "How did Khrushchev manage not only to survive Stalin but to succeed him? What led him to denounce his former master [an event that some interpreters herald as the first act in the drama that led to the end of the USSR]? How could a man of minimal formal education direct the affairs of a vast intercontinental empire in the nuclear age? Why did Khrushchev's attempt to ease East-West tensions result in two of the worst crises of the Cold War in Berlin and Cuba? To resolve these and other contradictions, we need more than policy documents from archives and memoirs from associates. We need firsthand testimony by family members who knew Khrushchev best, especially by his only surviving son, Sergei, in whom he often confided. "As Sergei says, "During the Cold War our nations lived on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, and not only was it an Iron Curtain but it was also a mirror: one side perceived the other as the 'evil empire,' and vice versa; so, too, each side feared the other would start a nuclear war. Neither side could understand the real reasons behind many decisions because Americans and Russians, representing different cultures, think differently. The result was a Cold War filled with misperceptions that could easily have led to tragedy, and we are lucky it never happened. And still, after the Cold War, American-Russian relations are based on many misunderstandings." In this book Sergei tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side, and this is his most important contribution. Sergei N. Khrushchev was born in 1935 when his father was Moscow party chief. He accompanied his father on major foreign trips--to Great Britain in 1956, East Germany in 1958, the United States in 1959, Egypt in 1964, among many others. After he became a control systems engineer and went to work for leading Soviet missile designer Vladimir Chelomei, Sergei attended many meetings at which his father transacted business with key leaders in the Soviet defense establishment. He has received many awards and honors for his work in computer science, missile design, and space research. Besides his many technical publications, he has published widely on political and economic issues. In 1991 Little Brown published his memoir about his father's last years, Khrushchev on Khrushchev . In that same year he received an appointment to the Center for Foreign Policy Development of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he is today. He and his wife, Valentina Nikolayevna, applied for U. S. citizenship in 1999, an event widely covered in the media., An introductory child development book whose topically-arranged coverage presents child development from a perspective that clearly acknowledges the numerous factors that influence children's growth., More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews, and memoirs. (A partial version of his memoirs was published in three volumes in 1970, 1974, and 1990, and a complete version was published in Russia in 1999 and will appear in an English translation to be published by Penn State Press.) But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. "How did Khrushchev manage not only to survive Stalin but to succeed him? What led him to denounce his former master [an event that some interpreters herald as the first act in the drama that led to the end of the USSR]? How could a man of minimal formal education direct the affairs of a vast intercontinental empire in the nuclear age? Why did Khrushchev's attempt to ease East-West tensions result in two of the worst crises of the Cold War in Berlin and Cuba? To resolve these and other contradictions, we need more than policy documents from archives and memoirs from associates. We need firsthand testimony by family members who knew Khrushchev best, especially by his only surviving son, Sergei, in whom he often confided. "As Sergei says, "During the Cold War our nations lived on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, and not only was it an Iron Curtain but it was also a mirror: one side perceived the other as the 'evil empire, ' and vice versa; so, too, each side feared the other would start a nuclear war. Neither side could understand the real reasons behind many decisions because Americans and Russians, representing different cultures, think differently. The result was a Cold War filled with misperceptions that could easily have led to tragedy, and we are lucky it never happened. And still, after the Cold War, American-Russian relations are based on many misunderstandings." In this book Sergei tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side, and this is his most important contribution. Sergei N. Khrushchev was born in 1935 when his father was Moscow party chief. He accompanied his father on major foreign trips--to Great Britain in 1956, East Germany in 1958, the United States in 1959, Egypt in 1964, among many others. After he became a control systems engineer and went to work for leading Soviet missile designer Vladimir Chelomei, Sergei attended many meetings at which his father transacted business with key leaders in the Soviet defense establishment. He has received many awards and honors for his work in computer science, missile design, and space research. Besides his many technical publications, he has published widely on political and economic issues. In 1991 Little Brown published his memoir about his father's last years, Khrushchev on Khrushchev . In that same year he received an appointment to the Center for Foreign Policy Development of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he is today. He and his wife, Valentina Nikolayevna, applied for U. S. citizenship in 1999, an event widely covered in the media., More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews, and memoirs. (A partial version of his memoirs was published in three volumes in 1970, 1974, and 1990, and a complete version was published in Russia in 1999 and will appear in an English translation to be published by Penn State Press.) But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. "How did Khrushchev manage not only to survive Stalin but to succeed him? What led him to denounce his former master an event that some interpreters herald as the first act in the drama that led to the end of the USSR]? How could a man of minimal formal education direct the affairs of a vast intercontinental empire in the nuclear age? Why did Khrushchev's attempt to ease East-West tensions result in two of the worst crises of the Cold War in Berlin and Cuba? To resolve these and other contradictions, we need more than policy documents from archives and memoirs from associates. We need firsthand testimony by family members who knew Khrushchev best, especially by his only surviving son, Sergei, in whom he often confided. "As Sergei says, "During the Cold War our nations lived on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, and not only was it an Iron Curtain but it was also a mirror: one side perceived the other as the 'evil empire, ' and vice versa; so, too, each side feared the other would start a nuclear war. Neither side could understand the real reasons behind many decisions because Americans and Russians, representing different cultures, think differently. The result was a Cold War filled with misperceptions that could easily have led to tragedy, and we are lucky it never happened. And still, after the Cold War, American-Russian relations are based on many misunderstandings." In this book Sergei tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side, and this is his most important contribution. Sergei N. Khrushchev was born in 1935 when his father was Moscow party chief. He accompanied his father on major foreign trips--to Great Britain in 1956, East Germany in 1958, the United States in 1959, Egypt in 1964, among many others. After he became a control systems engineer and went to work for leading Soviet missile designer Vladimir Chelomei, Sergei attended many meetings at which his father transacted business with key leaders in the Soviet defense establishment. He has received many awards and honors for his work in computer science, missile design, and space research. Besides his many technical publications, he has published widely on political and economic issues. In 1991 Little Brown published his memoir about his father's last years, Khrushchev on Khrushchev . In that same year he received an appointment to the Center for Foreign Policy Development of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he is today. He and his wife, Valentina Nikolayevna, applied for U. S. citizenship in 1999, an event widely covered in the media.
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