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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev

Name: Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271029351

Volume 3: Statesman, 1953-1964

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Edited by Sergei Khrushchev
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: July 14, 2007
Format: HARDBACK
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Pages: 1176

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This is the third and last volume of the only complete and fully reliable English-language version of the memoirs of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

In the first two volumes, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2005 and 2006, respectively, Khrushchev tells the story of his rise to power and his part in the fight against Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. He also discusses agriculture, the housing problem, and other issues of domestic policy, as well as defense and disarmament. This volume is devoted to international affairs. Khrushchev describes his dealings with foreign statesmen and his state visits to Britain, the United States, France, Scandinavia, India, Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, and Indonesia.

In the first part, Khrushchev talks about relations between the Soviet Union and the Western powers. Of particular interest is his perspective on the Berlin, U-2, and Cuban missile crises. The second part focuses on the Communist world—above all, the deterioration of relations with China and the tensions in Eastern Europe, including relations with Tito’s Yugoslavia, Gomulka’s Poland, and the 1956 Soviet intervention in Hungary. In the third part, Khrushchev discusses the search for allies in the Third World.

The Appendixes contain biographies, a bibliography, and a chronology, as well as the reminiscences of Khrushchev’s chief bodyguard about the visit to the United Nations in 1960 at which the famous “shoe-banging” incident occurred—or, perhaps, did not occur.

ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and AcronymsThe MemoirsRelations with the West: The Cold WarBefore and After the Peace Treaty with AustriaThe Four-Power Summit Meeting in Geneva (July 1955)Meeting with Adenauer (September 1955)The Visit to Great BritainBeginning of the Visit to the United StatesFrom New York to IowaWashington and Camp DavidThe Visit to FranceThe Four-Power Summit Meeting in Paris (May 1960)The Visit to the United NationsJohn Kennedy and the Berlin WallThe Cuban Missile CrisisVisiting the Scandinavian CountriesThe Socialist CommonwealthOn the Road to SocialismMao ZedongFriendship with China After the Victory of the People's RevolutionTurn for the Worse in Relations with ChinaFurther Worsening of Relations with ChinaHo Chi MinhAlbaniaYugoslaviaGermanyPolandHungaryCzechoslovakiaRomaniaOpening a Window Onto the Third WorldIndiaBurmaIndia, Afghanistan, Iran, and Again IndiaIndonesiaEgyptThe Six Day War in the Middle EastFrom Syria to YemenRelations with African CountriesAppendixesHow Khrushchev Subdued AmericaBiographiesChronologyBibliographyIndex

“Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most important political leaders of the twentieth century. Without his memoirs, neither the rise and fall of the Soviet Union nor the history of the Cold War can be fully understood. . . . The fact that the full text of Khrushchev’s memoirs will now be available in English is cause for rejoicing.”

—William Taubman, author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

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