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Khrushchev
The Man and His Era
Inbunden, 2003
887 kr
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Remembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, he managed to retain his humanity. His daring attempt to reform …
Gorbachev
His Life and Times
Häftad, 2018
258 kr
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When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left. By 1990 he, more …
Khrushchev
The Man and His Era
Häftad, 2004
369 kr
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The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory …
Nikita Khrushchev
Av Veronica Albin, William Taubman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1047 kr
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What was known about Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev during his career was strictly limited by the secretive Soviet government. Little more information was available after he was ousted and became a “non-person” in the ussr in 1964. This pathbreaking book draws for the first time on a wealth of …
Stalin's American Policy
From Entente to Detente to Cold War
Häftad, 1985
300 kr
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How and why did the Cold War arise out of wartime entente? Here, in a study focused on Soviet foreign policy from 1941 to 1953, William Taubman describes an intermediate stage of détente that Stalin abandoned reluctantly only after the Western powers did. Stalin, seen here as cautious and even …
McNamara at War
A New History
Av William Taubman, Philip Taubman
Inbunden, 2025
408 kr
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Robert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. While he could be cold and arrogant, he was an invaluable friend to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and had a deeply moving relationship with Jackie Kennedy. McNamara was the leading …
Gorbachev
His Life and Times
E-bok, 2017
173 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era , the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022. 'A phenomenally researched life of the man who did more than any other …
Gorbachev
His Life and Times
Häftad, 2018
198 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.'A phenomenally researched life of the man who did more than any other to …
Gorbachev
His Life and Times
Inbunden, 2017
303 kr
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When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left. By 1990 he, more …
