Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev

Volume 3: Statesman, 1953–1964

Sergei Khrushchev (Brown University)

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Pennsylvania State University Press
15 February 2013

Biography: historical, political & military; Diaries, letters & journals; Marxism & Communism; Diplomacy

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.

Edited by: Sergei Khrushchev (Brown University)
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 83mm
Weight: 1.497kg
ISBN: 9780271058580
ISBN 10: 0271058587
Pages: 1176
Publication Date: 15 February 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sergei Khrushchev is Senior Fellow at the Thomas Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Nikita Khrushchev and Creation of a Superpower (Penn State, 2000).

Reviews for Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 3: Statesman, 1953–1964

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