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Memoirs
of Nikita Khrushchev Volume 1, Commissar Edited by Sergei N. Khrushchev
1/31/2005 | 752 pgs | 6 x 9
68 Illustrations
History, Political Science
Co-published with The Thomas Jr. Watson Institute of International
Studies, Brown University
Hardback: $55.00 TR
ISBN-10: 0-271-02332-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02332-8
Nikita
Khrushchev’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations
that “we will bury you” is one of the most chilling and
memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban
Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late
in his career the motivation for Khrushchev’s actions wasn’t
always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the
USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But
what was he really like, and what did he really think?
Readers
of Khrushchev’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions
for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said
at the UN was “we will bury colonialism”). This is the
first volume of three in what will be the only complete and fully
reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In this volume
Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young
worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin
to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and then Moscow, and how
as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi
invaders. He vividly portrays life in Stalin’s inner circle
and among the generals who commanded the Soviet armies. Khrushchev’s
sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the
value of this unique personal and historical document.
Included
among the appendices is Sergei Khrushchev’s account of how
the memoirs were created and smuggled abroad during his fatherïs
retirement.
Nikita
Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894—1971) was First Secretary of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from
1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers from
1958 to 1964.
Contents
Captions to Photographs
Translator’s Preface
Editor’s Foreword
Andrei Bitov. The Baldest and the Boldest
Abbreviations and Acronyms
The Memoirs
Prologue
Part I. The Beginning of the Road
A Little About Myself
The Fourteenth Party Conference
A Few Words About the NEP
The Fifteenth Party Congress
The Move to Kharkov
The Move to Kiev
At the Industrial Academy
Personal Acquaintance with Stalin
Moscow Workdays
The Kirov Assassination
Some Consequences of the Kirov Assassination
In the Ukraine Again
The Ukraine–Moscow (Crossroads of the 1930s)
The Second World War Approaches
The Beginning of the Second World War
Events on the Eve of War
Part II. The Great Patriotic War
The Difficult Summer of 1941
People and Events of Summer and Fall 1941
1942: From Winter to Summer
By the Ruins of Stalingrad
Turn of the Tide at Stalingrad
The Road to Rostov
Before the Battle of Kursk and at Its Beginning
To the Dnieper!
Kiev Is Ours Again!
We Liberate the Ukraine
Forward to Victory!
Postwar Reflections
The Far East After the Great Patriotic War
War Memoirs
Appendices
A Short Biography of N. S. Khrushchev
L. Lasochko. The Khrushchev Family Line: A Historical Note
Sergei Khrushchev. The History of the Creation and Publication of
the Khrushchev Memoirs (1967–1999)
Conversation with N. S. Khrushchev at the Party Control Committee
Biographies
Index
Sergei
Khrushchev is Senior Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute
for International Studies at Brown University. He is the author
of Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower (Penn
State, 2000).
