Khrushchev The Years in Power

by Medvedev, Roy A.; Medvedev, Zhores

• ISBN13: 9780393008791
• ISBN10: 0393008797
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1978-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This portrait by two noted Soviet authors and dissidents of Nikita Khrushchev's years in power reveals the former leader of the Soviet Union as a decisive, even impetuous, innovator, a side of him little known before in the West. Khrushchev emerges as a man impatient to destroy Stalinism, to remedy defects in the Soviet system, and to solve the problems of Soviet agriculture. As no other book before it, Khrushchev brings into focus the many sides of the shrewd and complex Soviet leader and the interrelation between Soviet politics and agricultural policy that brought about his removal from power.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
the Stalin Inheritance	p. 1
Victims of the Stalin Era	p. 13
Agricultural Reforms	p. 24
the Challenge of the West	p. 38
the Power Struggle	p. 46
Agricultural """"Miracles""""	p. 56
Khrushchev Ascendant	p. 66
Khrushchev Overriding	p. 81
Fiasco in Riazan Oblast	p. 94
the Soviet-American Hybrid	p. 102
the Agricultural """"Miracles"""" Under a Cloud	p. 117
the Men Around Khrushchev	p. 129
""""Reforms"""" That Started a Political Crisis	p. 143
the Sour Taste of Failure	p. 159
Exit Khrushchev	p. 171
After Khrushchev	p. 180
Index	p. 191
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