Khrushchev's Russia: Revised Edition
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the height of the Cold War, few Western observers possessed the clarity, access, and sheer intellectual courage to dissect the Soviet Union from the inside out — Edward Crankshaw was one of them. Khrushchev's Russia chronicles the volatile and contradictory era presided over by Nikita Khrushchev, mapping the turbulent political landscape of the USSR in the years following Stalin's death, from the tentative thaw of de-Stalinisation to the power struggles and ideological tremors that redefined the Soviet state and sent shockwaves across the globe. Crankshaw writes with the authority of a seasoned correspondent who spent years studying Russia at close quarters, blending sharp political analysis with vivid human observation to produce a portrait of a superpower in the grip of profound, uneasy transformation. His prose is precise and unsparing, cutting through Cold War propaganda on both sides to present a nuanced account of how Khrushchev's personality and policies shaped — and were shaped by — the vast, resistant machinery of the Soviet system. This revised edition updates his analysis to reflect the rapidly shifting realities of Soviet politics, leaving the reader to wonder how much of that fragile thaw would ultimately endure.
Author: Edward Crankshaw
Format: Paperback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the height of the Cold War, few Western observers possessed the clarity, access, and sheer intellectual courage to dissect the Soviet Union from the inside out — Edward Crankshaw was one of them. Khrushchev's Russia chronicles the volatile and contradictory era presided over by Nikita Khrushchev, mapping the turbulent political landscape of the USSR in the years following Stalin's death, from the tentative thaw of de-Stalinisation to the power struggles and ideological tremors that redefined the Soviet state and sent shockwaves across the globe. Crankshaw writes with the authority of a seasoned correspondent who spent years studying Russia at close quarters, blending sharp political analysis with vivid human observation to produce a portrait of a superpower in the grip of profound, uneasy transformation. His prose is precise and unsparing, cutting through Cold War propaganda on both sides to present a nuanced account of how Khrushchev's personality and policies shaped — and were shaped by — the vast, resistant machinery of the Soviet system. This revised edition updates his analysis to reflect the rapidly shifting realities of Soviet politics, leaving the reader to wonder how much of that fragile thaw would ultimately endure.