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Khrushchev on Khrushchev

Soviet leader Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born to illiterate peasants and developed a taste for activism during his early years working in a factory where he helped organize protests against working conditions. In Khrushchev on Khrushchev, Sergei Khrushchev gives us a personal account of his father’s fall from power, his final years spent in retirement, and the production of his memoirs. The book is much more than a personal account of a man who did not take retirement well and died bitter as his reforms and policies were overturned by his successor, Leonid Brezhnev. This is because it offers a fascinating into the transitions that occurred within the Soviet Union as power changed hands from Joseph Stalin to Khrushchev and then to Brezhnev. Stalin’s brutal and bloody regime was reformed by Khrushchev, who in turn watched his reforms overturned by Brezhnev as he implemented Stalin-like policies and tactics. In studying these transitions, we see how Khrushchev, despite his bluster and fear tactics, helped pave the way for glasnost and the eventual liberation of formerly Soviet countries. Nevertheless, we see that Khrushchev was also solidly locked into the mentality and intellect of the Stalin era, which saw his reforms fail and were responsible for two of the biggest crises of the Cold War.

Nikita Khrushchev was involved in activism his entire life. As a young man his factory work led him to organize protests against working conditions. After the Russian Revolution and the removal of the Czar, Khrushchev became a member of the Bolshevik forces of the Red Army. He acted as political commissar and became a man devoted to communism. When the Russian Civil War was over, Khrushchev took a variety of political assignments while receiving formal education in Marxism at a technical college. It was this training that helped Khrushchev become a man of the people, one who tried to improve the lot of teachers, physicians, an...

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