Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, 2. kötetPenn State Press, 2004 - 856 oldal Nikita Khrushchev&’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that &“we will bury you&” is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career, the motivation for Khrushchev&’s actions wasn&’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev&’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was &“we will bury colonialism&”). This is the second volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his story up to the close of World War II. In the first section of this second volume, he covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation of the immediate aftermath of the war to Stalin&’s death, the subsequent power struggle, and the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to Khrushchev&’s recollections and thoughts about various domestic and international problems. In the second and third sections, he recalls the virgin lands and other agricultural campaigns and his dealings with nuclear scientists and weapons designers. He also considers other sectors of the economy, specifically construction and the provision of consumer goods, administrative reform, and questions of war, peace, and disarmament. In the last section, he discusses the relations between the party leadership and the intelligentsia. Included among the Appendixes are the notebooks of Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, Khrushchev&’s wife. |
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Acknowledgments | |
Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
Soviet Missile Codes | |
From Victory Day to the Twentieth Party Congress | |
In Moscow Again | |
Some Comments on Certain Individuals | |
One of Stalins ShortcomingsAntiSemitism | |
Beria and Others | |
We Suffer from the Imperfection of Our Organizational System | |
CornA Crop I Gave Much Attention to | |
The Shelves in Our Stores Are Empty | |
Structuring the Soviet Armed Forces | |
The Soviet Navy | |
Airplanes and Missiles | |
Antimissile Defenses | |
Tanks and Cannon | |
Stalins Family and His Daughter Svetlana | |
Stalins Last Years | |
The Korean War | |
Doctors Plot | |
The Nineteenth Party Congress | |
After the Nineteenth Party Congress | |
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR | |
Stalin About Himself | |
The Death of Stalin | |
My Reflections on Stalin | |
Once Again on Beria | |
After Stalins Death | |
From the Nineteenth Party Congress to the Twentieth | |
After the Twentieth Party Congress | |
A Few Words About Government Power Zhukov and Others | |
How to Make Life Better | |
My Work in Agriculture | |
The Virgin Lands | |
We Have Not Achieved the Abundance We Desire | |
Agriculture and Science | |
Academician Vilyams and His GrassField CropRotation System | |
The Agricultural Field as a Chessboard | |
A Few Words About the Machine and Tractor Stationsand About Specialization | |
Wheels or Tank Treads? | |
Scientists and Defense Technology | |
Cooperation on Outer Space | |
Kurchatov Keldysh Sakharov Tupolev Lavrentyev Kapitsa and Others | |
Issues of Peace and War | |
On Peace and War | |
Nuclear War and Conventional War | |
Arms Race or Peaceful Coexistence? | |
Government Spending | |
Relations with Intelligentsia | |
Appendixes | |
The Last Romantic Anatoly Strelyany | |
Memorandum of N S Khrushchev on Military Reform | |
On Limiting the Receipt of Foreign Correspondence by N S Khrushchev | |
Announcement of the Death of N S Khrushchev | |
The Sendoff | |
Sanitation Day Notes of a Contemporary on the Funeral of N S Khrushchev | |
Mamas Notebooks 19711984 | |
Biographies | |
Back Cover | |