Party Faithful From: The Washington Post | Date: March 9, 2003| Author: Reviewed by Robert G. Kaiser | Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

KHRUSHCHEV

The Man and His Era

By William Taubman

Norton. 876 pp. $35

It is too easy to forget how crazy the Soviet Union was -- not the madness of Joseph Stalin, who killed millions between 1924 and 1953, but the everyday craziness of a cockamamie system. Consider the tragicomic case of Alexei Larionov, who in 1958 was the Communist Party boss of Ryazan oblast, or district, southeast of Moscow.

Larionov was the faithful toady of Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's s...

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