Khrushchev unburied.(Writers & Writing)(Book Review)

The New Leader | September 1, 2004| | Copyright

NIKITA SERGEYEVICH KHRUSHCHEV, the Soviet Union's mid-20th-century leader, was a man of deep paradox. He was Josef Stalin's willing executioner, and one of the few top Soviet officials over the age of 35 to elude the purges in the late 1930s. To the end of his days he remained a devout Communist, the "last true believer," some said. He rattled his missiles and threatened the worst when the occasion prompted him. Yet he emptied most of the Gulag, toppled the dead Stalin from his pedestal of infallibility, curbed his own riskiest impulses, and ultimately held out olive branches ...

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