Khrushchev: The Years in Power

by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev, Roy Medvedev

Book Overview

This portrait by two noted Soviet authors and dissidents of Nikita S. Khrushchev's years in power reveals the former leader of the Soviet Union as a decisive, even impetuous, innovator, a side of him little known before in the West. Khrushchev emerges as a man impatient to destroy Stalinism, to remedy defects in the Soviet system, and to solve the problems of Soviet agriculture. As no other book before it, Khrushchev brings into focus the many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393008797
• ISBN13: 9780393008791
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The reforms of the Khrushchev years.

Khrushchev may have been a crude peasant who ran Russia during part of the Cold War. He was also a reform politician who instituted serious political and economic reform in the Soviet Union. In the process, he brushed aside all the old Stalinists, including Beria. Medvedev makes it plan that even though Khrushchev made many mistakes, overall his rule benefited the people of the Soviet Union. If one of the old guard Stalinists or Beria himself were to rule, the human tragedy would have been immense. This is a political biography of Khrushchev's rule in power. The book is divided into easy to read short chapters of various political and economic reforms during the Khrushchev's years in power. A nice consise read.