Crankshaw, Edward
Khrushchev: A Career / Edward Crankshaw - New York Viking Press 1966 - 311 p.
From log cabin to Red Square --
The child, then the man --
Revolution, chaos, civil war --
First steps of a very long climb --
More Stalinist than Stalin --
To Moscow! Perseverance and intrigue --
City politics, Moscow style --
"We have a beautiful metro!" --
The great purge : "Stalin is our banner! Stalin is our will!" --
Viceroy of the Ukraine --
1939 : invader of Poland --
The great patriotic war --
Reconstruction, Russification --
Overture to the struggle for supremacy --
Stalin's end, Malenkov's challenge --
The chieftain finds his voice --
Old dogmas, new ideas --
- The secret speech and the world stage --
Victory : the dictator by consent --
A visionary imprisoned by his past.
Khrushchez: A Career is the story of a self made man who rose from peasant origins to become master of two hundred million Russians and a determining force in world affairs. Full-length biography, which also re-creates the "feel" of Russia from the chaos of Revolution to the ordered bureaucracy of today.
32601
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.
Khrouchtchev, Nikita Sergheïevitch, 1894-1971.
Heads of state --Soviet Union
Soviet Union
--History
947.085 Cra 15
Khrushchev: A Career / Edward Crankshaw - New York Viking Press 1966 - 311 p.
From log cabin to Red Square --
The child, then the man --
Revolution, chaos, civil war --
First steps of a very long climb --
More Stalinist than Stalin --
To Moscow! Perseverance and intrigue --
City politics, Moscow style --
"We have a beautiful metro!" --
The great purge : "Stalin is our banner! Stalin is our will!" --
Viceroy of the Ukraine --
1939 : invader of Poland --
The great patriotic war --
Reconstruction, Russification --
Overture to the struggle for supremacy --
Stalin's end, Malenkov's challenge --
The chieftain finds his voice --
Old dogmas, new ideas --
- The secret speech and the world stage --
Victory : the dictator by consent --
A visionary imprisoned by his past.
Khrushchez: A Career is the story of a self made man who rose from peasant origins to become master of two hundred million Russians and a determining force in world affairs. Full-length biography, which also re-creates the "feel" of Russia from the chaos of Revolution to the ordered bureaucracy of today.
32601
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.
Khrouchtchev, Nikita Sergheïevitch, 1894-1971.
Heads of state --Soviet Union
Soviet Union
--History
947.085 Cra 15