Volume 40, Number 6 · March 25, 1993
The Counterrevolutionary
By David Remnick
Sto Sorok Besed s Molotovym (One Hundred Forty Talks with Molotov)
by Feliks Chuyev
Terra Publishers, 604 pp., 100 rubles
Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev
by Yegor Ligachev, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, by Michele A. Berdy, by Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman
Pantheon, 369 pp., $27.50
In the years after his overthrow, Nikita Khrushchev sat with a boxy reel-to-reel tape recorder and dictated his memoirs for hours at a time. To avoid the listening devices he knew had been planted in his house, he worked at first outside his dacha in Petrovo-Dalneye. One can hear on the tapes the buzz of planes flying overhead. But soon the old man grew disgusted with the discomfort and inconvenience of working in the cold. 'To hell with the bugs!' he said and moved the project into the house.[1]
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