Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 3: Statesman, 19531964,New

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 3: Statesman, 19531964,New

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This is the third and last volume of the only complete and fully reliable Englishlanguage 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 Hitlers 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, U2, and Cuban missile crises. The second part focuses on the Communist worldabove all, the deterioration of relations with China and the tensions in Eastern Europe, including relations with Titos Yugoslavia, Gomulkas 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 Khrushchevs chief bodyguard about the visit to the United Nations in 1960 at which the famous shoebanging incident occurredor, perhaps, did not occur.

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