L'Homme Nikita; Soviet history.('Khrushchev: The Man and His Era')(Book Review)

The Economist (US) | May 10, 2003 | Copyright

Two new books describe how Khrushchev dealt with Stalin's legacy, and (see next article) how Vladimir Putin still struggles with the Russia he inherited in 2000

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THE outsized shoes that America alone now fills may lead some people to look back nostalgically at the cold war. For nearly half a century, the balance of power that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union created a modicum of stability in international relations and, some historians claim, acted as a brake on the interventionist impulses that occasionally afflicted each of the ...

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