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Nikita Khrushchev’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that “we will bury you” is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career, the motivation for Khrushchev’s actions wasn’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was “we will bury colonialism”).

This is the second volume of three in what will be the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his story up to the close of World War II. In the first section of this second volume, he covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation of the immediate aftermath of the war to Stalin’s death, the subsequent power struggle, and the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to Khrushchev’s recollections and thoughts about various domestic and international problems. In the second and third sections, he recalls the virgin lands and other agricultural campaigns and his dealings with nuclear scientists and weapons designers. He also considers other sectors of the economy, specifically construction and the provision of consumer goods, administrative reform, and questions of war, peace, and disarmament. In the last section, he discusses the relations between the party leadership and the intelligentsia.

Included among the Appendixes are the notebooks of Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, Khrushchev’s wife.

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Nikita Khrushchev’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that “we will bury you” is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career, the motivation for Khrushchev’s actions wasn’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was “we will bury colonialism”).

This is the second volume of three in what will be the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his story up to the close of World War II. In the first section of this second volume, he covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation of the immediate aftermath of the war to Stalin’s death, the subsequent power struggle, and the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to Khrushchev’s recollections and thoughts about various domestic and international problems. In the second and third sections, he recalls the virgin lands and other agricultural campaigns and his dealings with nuclear scientists and weapons designers. He also considers other sectors of the economy, specifically construction and the provision of consumer goods, administrative reform, and questions of war, peace, and disarmament. In the last section, he discusses the relations between the party leadership and the intelligentsia.

Included among the Appendixes are the notebooks of Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, Khrushchev’s wife.

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About the Author

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894–1971) was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
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Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Acronyms

The Memoirs

From Victory Day to the Twentieth Party Congress

The First Postwar Years

In Moscow Again

Some Comments on Certain Individuals

One of Stalin’s Shortcomings—Anti-Semitism

Beria and Others

Stalin’s Family, and His Daughter Svetlana

Stalin’s Last Years

The Korean War

Doctors’ Plot

The Nineteenth Party Congress

After the Nineteenth Party Congress

Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR

Stalin About Himself

The Death of Stalin

My Reflections on Stalin

Once Again on Beria

After Stalin’s Death

From the Nineteenth Party Congress to the Twentieth

After the Twentieth Party Congress

A Few Words About Government Power, Zhukov, and Others

How to Make Life Better

Build More—and with High Quality

My Work in Agriculture

The Virgin Lands

We Have Not Achieved the Abundance We Desire

Agriculture and Science

Academician Vilyams and His Grass-Field Crop-Rotation System

The Agricultural Field as a Chessboard

A Few Words About the Machine and Tractor Stations—and About Specialization

We Suffer from the Imperfection of Our Organizational System

Corn—A Crop I Gave Much Attention to

The Shelves in Our Stores Are Empty

The Postwar Defense of the USSR

1. Structuring the Soviet Armed Forces

Stalin’s Legacy

The Soviet Navy

Airplanes and Missiles

Antimissile Defenses

Tanks and Cannon

The Problem of Transport: Wheels or Tank Treads?

2. Scientists and Defense Technology

Andrei Sakharov and Nuclear Weapons

Cooperation on Outer Space

Kurchatov, Keldysh, Sakharov, Tupolev, Lavrentyev, Kapitsa, and Others

3. Issues of Peace and War

Reducing the Size of the Soviet Army

On Peace and War

Nuclear War and Conventional War

Arms Race or Peaceful Coexistence?

Government Spending

Relations with the Intelligentsia

I Am Not a Judge

Appendixes

The Last Romantic

Anatoly Strelyany

Memorandum of N. S. Khrushchev on Military Reform

Memorandum of KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov to the CPSU Central Committee: “On Limiting the Receipt of Foreign Correspondence by N. S. Khrushchev”

Announcement of the Death of N. S. Khrushchev

The Sendoff

Georgy Fyodorov

Sanitation Day (Notes of a Contemporary on the Funeral of N. S. Khrushchev)

Anatoly Zlobin

Mama’s Notebooks, 1971–1984

Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva

Biographies

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780271028613
Author:
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
Translator:
Shriver, George
Editor:
Khrushchev, Sergei
Author:
Khrushchev, Sergei
Subject:
General
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Soviet Union
Subject:
Heads of state
Subject:
Presidents & Heads of State
Subject:
Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Subject:
Soviet Union Politics and government.
Subject:
Heads of state -- Soviet Union.
Subject:
Biography-Historical
Subject:
Russia (pre & post Soviet Union)
Subject:
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev
Subject:
Volume 2
Subject:
Reformer*
Subject:
Sergei Khrushchev
Subject:
George Shriver
Subject:
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute of International Studies
Subject:
Brown university
Subject:
Stalin
Subject:
Russia
Subject:
Zhukov
Subject:
U.S.S.R
Subject:
Anatoly Strelyany
Subject:
Yuri Andropov
Subject:
Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva
Subject:
Cuban Missle Crisis
Subject:
The Thomas J. W
Subject:
atson Jr. Institute of International Studies
Subject:
Memoirs of
Subject:
Nikita Khrushchev
Subject:
Sergei Kh
Subject:
rushchev
Edition Description:
Library binding
Series Volume:
Volume 2: Reformer,
Publication Date:
20060931
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
896
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.13 x 2 in 3.187 oz
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"Synopsis" by , Nikita Khrushchev’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that “we will bury you” is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career, the motivation for Khrushchev’s actions wasn’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was “we will bury colonialism”).

This is the second volume of three in what will be the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his story up to the close of World War II. In the first section of this second volume, he covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation of the immediate aftermath of the war to Stalin’s death, the subsequent power struggle, and the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to Khrushchev’s recollections and thoughts about various domestic and international problems. In the second and third sections, he recalls the virgin lands and other agricultural campaigns and his dealings with nuclear scientists and weapons designers. He also considers other sectors of the economy, specifically construction and the provision of consumer goods, administrative reform, and questions of war, peace, and disarmament. In the last section, he discusses the relations between the party leadership and the intelligentsia.

Included among the Appendixes are the notebooks of Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, Khrushchev’s wife.
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