Khrushchev and the First Russian SpringKhrushchev and the First Russian Spring
the Era of Khrushchev Through the Eyes of His Advisor
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Current format, Book, 1991, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsOne of Khrushchev's closest advisors reveals the inside story of how the road to glasnost and perestroika began with Khrushchev's 1956 "secret speech" to the Twentieth Party Congress, which sparked the dismantling of Stalinism.
The road to glasnost and perestroika begins with Khrushchev. It was his "secret speech" to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956 which for the first time publicly acknowledged the horrors of Stalinism and began the dismantling of the stultifying Stalin cult.
One of Khrushchev's closest advisers, Fedor Burlatsky, whose relationship with Khrushchev was similar to Ted Sorensen's with President Kennedy, has now written the true story of the Khrushchev years, as he saw them from the inside. Here are his personal recollections of Khrushchev, whom he accompanied on six visits abroad, of Andropov with whom he worked very closely, of Suslov, Kosygin, Shelepin and other figures of the time, of meetings with Tito, Kadar and Mao Tse-tung, and of advisers in the corridors of power in the Kremlin and the highest offices of the Soviet state. He vividly describes the dramatic struggle for and against reform, and provides a unique window onto Soviet Russia's past, present and future.
For twenty years Khrushchev's name was almost taboo and his achievement unrecorded. Burlatsky, writing as only an insider could, shows how the semi-literate peasant reached the pinnacle of power and paved the way for the new Soviet Union.
The road to glasnost and perestroika begins with Khrushchev. It was his "secret speech" to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956 which for the first time publicly acknowledged the horrors of Stalinism and began the dismantling of the stultifying Stalin cult.
One of Khrushchev's closest advisers, Fedor Burlatsky, whose relationship with Khrushchev was similar to Ted Sorensen's with President Kennedy, has now written the true story of the Khrushchev years, as he saw them from the inside. Here are his personal recollections of Khrushchev, whom he accompanied on six visits abroad, of Andropov with whom he worked very closely, of Suslov, Kosygin, Shelepin and other figures of the time, of meetings with Tito, Kadar and Mao Tse-tung, and of advisers in the corridors of power in the Kremlin and the highest offices of the Soviet state. He vividly describes the dramatic struggle for and against reform, and provides a unique window onto Soviet Russia's past, present and future.
For twenty years Khrushchev's name was almost taboo and his achievement unrecorded. Burlatsky, writing as only an insider could, shows how the semi-literate peasant reached the pinnacle of power and paved the way for the new Soviet Union.
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