Volume 50, Number 7 · May 1, 2003
L'Homme Nikita
By Robert Cottrell
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman
Norton, 876 pp., $35.00
Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism
by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár, translated from the Russian by George Shriver, with a foreword by Archie Brown
Columbia University Press, 225 pp., $24.95
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
by Alexander N. Yakovlev,translated from the Russian by Anthony Austin, with a foreword by Paul Hollander
Yale University Press, 254 pp., $29.95
William Taubman's monumental, long-awaited biography of Nikita Khru-shchev is the most important book on Khrushchev to appear in English since the deposed Soviet leader's own memoirs in 1970. It is rich in analysis and factual detail, shedding new light both on Khrushchev's life and on the Soviet state.
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