Khrushchev: The Man and His Era - Softcover

Taubman, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743275640 ISBN 13: 9780743275644

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2005

Synopsis

William Taubman's brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts -- how the boy from a peasant background rose to the heights of power; how a single-minded, ambitious political player survived twenty years under Stalin; how he opened up to the West after Stalin's death and yet brought the world close to oblivion in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hugely acclaimed on hardback publication, and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is a magisterial work of political biography and a riveting insight into one of the giants of twentieth-century history. It is likely to remain the standard work for years to come.

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Review:

A portrait unlikely to be surpassed any time soon in either richness or complexity....shines with mastery and authority.--Leon Aron

About the Author:

William Taubman is Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College.  His 2003 book, Khrushchev: The  Man and his Era, won both the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography in 2004.  Taubman has been the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and chairs the Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743275640
• ISBN 13: 9780743275644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 896