{"product_id":"2026200016255-secondhand-khrushchev-political-leaders-of-the-twentieth-century","title":"Khrushchev: Political Leaders Of The Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in modern history loom as large — or as contradictorily — as Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, the Ukrainian miner's son who rose through the blood-soaked ranks of Stalinist Russia to lead a superpower through one of history's most perilous decades. Mark Frankland's authoritative biography chronicles the life of this mercurial Soviet Premier, from his impoverished beginnings in Kalinovka to his central role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, de-Stalinisation, and the brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising — mapping the full, turbulent arc of a man who was simultaneously liberator and oppressor.\n\nFrankland, a seasoned foreign correspondent with first-hand experience of the Soviet Union, writes with the precision of a journalist and the insight of a historian, presenting Khrushchev not as a cardboard Cold War villain but as a deeply human and deeply flawed architect of the modern world. Part of Pelican's acclaimed Political Leaders of the Twentieth Century series, the biography illuminates the paradoxes of Soviet power and the volatile personality at its helm, leaving the reader to wrestle with an enduring question: was Khrushchev the man who could have changed Russia, or the man who proved it could not be changed?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342774051035,"sku":"2026200016255-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/76a436bb-3dfb-44dc-bd63-cdc979210f8a.png?v=1790049101","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016255-secondhand-khrushchev-political-leaders-of-the-twentieth-century","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}