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The poor man's Stalin Khrushchev was pugnacious, opportunistic and cruel, but still couldn't match his mentor, says Richard Overy
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Khrushchev:
The Man and his Era
by William Taubman
Free Press, pounds 25, 876 pp
pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV is perhaps best remembered for an outburst of
temper at the United Nations in 1960 when he took off his shoe and
banged it on the desk. Unlike his arch-rival of the Cold War, John F.
Kennedy, his political life has faded into obscurity.
Now William Taubman has rescued him from the shadows in this
masterly study of a Soviet politician who straddled the heroic and
disastrous years of Russian history, from revolution in 1917, through
Stalin's terror and ...
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