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Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard biography provides much new information on Khrushchev's life and career. Khrushchev's ultimate failure to realise his vision of the Soviet future is linked to the unrealistic optimism of that vision as well as to the contr...

The approach is thematic rather than chronological, with part one examining politics and policy under Brezhnev, including chapters on leadership politics, domestic policy, and foreign policy, and part two looking at the economy and society, with chapters on economic performance, demographic and social change, and culture. An introductory section contextualises the treatment by considering the Soviet Union that Brezhnev inherited from Khruschev...

Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard biography provides much new information on Khrushchev's life and career. Khrushchev's ultimate failure to realise his vision of the Soviet future is linked to the unrealistic optimism of that vision as well as to the contr...