Contents
Captions to Photographs
Translators Preface
Editors Foreword
Andrei Bitov. The Baldest and the Boldest
Abbreviations and Acronyms
The Memoirs
Prologue
Part I. The Beginning of the Road
A Little About Myself
The Fourteenth Party Conference
A Few Words About the NEP
The Fifteenth Party Congress
The Move to Kharkov
The Move to Kiev
At the Industrial Academy
Personal Acquaintance with Stalin
Moscow Workdays
The Kirov Assassination
Some Consequences of the Kirov Assassination
In the Ukraine Again
The Ukraine-Moscow (Crossroads of the 1930s)
The Second World War Approaches
The Beginning of the Second World War
Events on the Eve of War
Part II. The Great Patriotic War
The Difficult Summer of 1941
People and Events of Summer and Fall 1941
1942: From Winter to Summer
By the Ruins of Stalingrad
Turn of the Tide at Stalingrad
The Road to Rostov
Before the Battle of Kursk and at Its Beginning
To the Dnieper!
Kiev Is Ours Again!
We Liberate the Ukraine
Forward to Victory!
Postwar Reflections
The Far East After the Great Patriotic War
War Memoirs
Appendices
A Short Biography of N. S. Khrushchev
L. Lasochko. The Khrushchev Family Line: A Historical Note
Sergei Khrushchev. The History of the Creation and Publication of the Khrushchev
Memoirs (1967-1999)
Conversation with N. S. Khrushchev at the Party Control Committee
Biographies
Index
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971) was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
Sergei Khrushchev is Senior Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower (Penn State, 2000).
“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. By dictating his memoirs and publishing them in
the West, Khrushchev transformed himself from the USSR’s leader to
one of its first dissidents. His remarkably candid recollections
were a harbinger of glasnost to come. Like virtually all memoirs,
his have a personal and political agenda, but even what might be
called Khrushchev’s ‘myth of himself’ is vital for understanding
how this colorful figure could place his contradictory stamp on his
country and the world. The fact that the full text of Khrushchev’s
memoirs will now be available in English is cause for
rejoicing.”—William Taubman,winner of the 2004 National Book
Critics Circle Award and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his book
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
“One of the most extraordinary archives of the twentieth
century”—Strobe Talbott,former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
“Khrushchev had a remarkable memory, and although the style and
broad outline of what he has to say will be familiar to those who
read the original two-volume English version issued in the early
1970s, the detail he provides here, particularly on the war, adds a
great deal.”—Robert Legvold Foreign Affairs
“But his personal slant, conveyed in the World War II memoirs that
make up half of this huge book, is important for understanding the
political atmosphere during that colossal struggle. And the detail
of his recall, without notes or references, is
extraordinary.”—Robert V. Daniels The New Leader
“Sergei Khrushchev (Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute, Brown Univ.)
has edited an exquisitely detailed, amply documented, remarkably
translated first volume of a proposed three-volume translation of
his father’s memoirs, based on the four-volume Russian edition of
1999.”—C.W. Haury Choice
“There is a lot less high politics here than one would expect.
Khrushchev’s focus is very often on chance encounters and small
vignettes, often told at great length, rather than on reflections
on the ‘big picture’ or revelations about key historical events.
Yet it is this above all else that makes this work so readable, for
it allows Khrushchev’s personality to come through in the text in
all its contradictions and complexity.”—William Tompson Political
Science Quarterly
“This volume far exceeds in detail earlier editions of the
Khrushchev memoirs and for readers of this journal especially, his
observations of the war years are intriguing.”—Paule Wanke Journal
of Military History
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