Khrushchev (English and Russian Edition)

By Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev, Roy Medvedev

Book Overview

Two prominent Soviet dissidents portray Khrushchev in power as a shrewd, complex, decisive, and impetuous innovator, impatient to remedy defects in the Soviet system but carried away by initial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385183879
• ISBN13: 9780385183871
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The reforms of the Khrushchev years.

Khrushchev may have been a crude peasant who ran Russia during part of the Cold War. He was also a reform politician who instituted serious political and economic reform in the Soviet Union. In the process, he brushed aside all the old Stalinists, including Beria. Medvedev makes it plan that even though Khrushchev made many mistakes, overall his rule benefited the people of the Soviet Union. If one of the old guard Stalinists or Beria himself were to rule, the human tragedy would have been immense. This is a political biography of Khrushchev's rule in power. The book is divided into easy to read short chapters of various political and economic reforms during the Khrushchev's years in power. A nice consise read.