{"product_id":"nikita-khrushchev-9780300076356","title":"Nikita Khrushchev","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat was known about Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev during his career was strictly limited by the secretive Soviet government. Little more information was available after he was ousted and became a non-person in the ussr in 1964. This pathbreaking book draws for the first time on a wealth of newly released materialsdocuments from secret former Soviet archives  memoirs of long-silent witnesses  the full memoirs of the premier himselfto assemble the best-informed analysis of the Khrushchev years ever completed. The contributors to this volume include Russian  Ukrainian  American  and British scholars; a former key foreign policy aide to Khrushchev; the executive secretary of a Russian commission investigating Soviet-era repressions and rehabilitations; and Khrushchevs own son Sergei.  The book presents and interprets new information on Khrushchevs struggle for power  public attitudes toward him  his role in agricultural reform and cultural politics  and such foreign policy issues as East-West relations  nuclear strategy  and relations with Germany. It also chronicles Khrushchevs years in Ukraine where he grew up and began his political career  serving as Communist party boss from 1938 to 1949  and his role in mass repressions of the 1930s and in destalinization in the 1950s and 1960s. Two concluding chapters compare the regimes of Khrushchev and Gorbachev as they struggled to reform Communism  to humanize and modernize the Soviet system  and to answer the haunting question that persists today: Is Russia itself reformable?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67902264705077,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300076355","price":55.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300076356.jpg?v=1793821393","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/nikita-khrushchev-9780300076356","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}