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Khrushchev (Bloomsbury Reader) by Edward Crankshaw, Edward Crankshaw is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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This is the story of the rise and fall of one man against the background of his country's history - bloody, tumultuous, yet immensely significant - since the revolution in 1917. Nikita Sergei Khrushchev was born in 1894 at Kalinovka where Great Russia borders the Ukraine.He was the child of peasants driven from the land by poverty.His grandfather had been born a serf; his father was a landless worker travelling to the coal fields of the Donetz Valley in the winter, in spring returning to the land.Thus the infant Khrushchev was one of a vast family of nearly one hundred million peasants, mainly illiterate, latterly liberated from serfdom.He was a child without history, and as an infant lucky to survive.Sixty years later, nevertheless, he was to become the dominant leader of the Soviet Empire, now the home of two hundred and twenty million souls, disposing of a massive and complex economy, a vast and modern army, navy and air force and presiding over the launching of the first man into space. In this biography Edward Crankshaw describes how this was achieved, provides a vivid and convincing appreciation of Khrushchev's extraordinary and contradictory character and at the same time pl
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Edward Crankshaw, Edward Crankshaw
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Reader
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781448204618
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (16 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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