Sergei Khrushchev is Senior Fellow at Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
William Taubman is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of Stalin's American Policy (1983) and Moscow's Silent Spring (1990). He is currently at work on a biography of Nikita Khushchev.
William C. Wohlforth is Assistant Professor of International Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. He is the author of Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions during the Cold War (1993) and editor of Witnesses to the End of the Cold War (1996) and Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, and Debates (forthcoming).
“This book is far more than a casual exculpatory portrait by a
member of the family. For years, Khrushchev the younger has studied
his father’s leadership; in the late 1960s, he helped prepare the
famous Khrushchev tapes. . . . He makes no excuses for his father
and acknowledged his mistakes. Yet he also stresses the temper of
the times, its mindset (including his own), and what the system
permitted and required.”—Robert Legvold Foreign Affairs
“Sergei Khrushchev is an intelligent observer; he had many
opportunities to converse with his father, he overheard his
father’s discussions with others, and kept a record of the events
which he had witnessed. He writes straightforward prose, without
literary pretensions. The most valuable information which this book
provides bears on something that for all its importance rarely
emerges from documents, namely, attitudes and ambiance—the
imponderables that determine how statesmen act.”—Richard Pipes
Times Literary Supplement
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