Khrushchev
Subtitle: A Political Life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780312163600
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography: general; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Political leaders & leadership; Political; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; 1894-1971; Biography; Heads of state; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich,; Soviet Union; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: The career of Nikita Khrushchev took him far from the peasant village of his childhood and the industrial town of his youth, but the memories of his peasant-proletarian background remained important to him all his life, informing his views and reinforcing his basic faith in communists ideals and in the Soviet system.