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Khrushchev
- Title
- Khrushchev / Geoffrey Swain.
- Author
- Swain, Geoff
- Publication
- London : Palgrave, [2016].
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-997 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vi, 232 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This concise, approachable introduction to Khrushchev explores the innovative theme of Khrushchev as reformer, arguing that the 'bumbling' nature of those reforms only partly reflected Khrushchev's uncertainty about how to act. Swain provides a cogent account of Khrushchev's political career and of his wider role in Soviet and world politics"--
- Series Statement
- European history in perspective
- Uniform Title
- European history in perspective.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Note
- "Macmillian Education."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Becoming a Party apparatchik, 1894-1929 -- 2. Stalin's favourite, 1929-1941 -- 3. Questioning Stalin, 1941-1953 -- 4. Dethroning Stalin, 1953-6 -- Ousting Stalinists, 1956-58 -- 6. Constructing Communism at home, 1958-62 -- 7. Confronting capitalism -- 8. The reformer ousted.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-997
- ISBN
- 9781137335500
- 1137335505
- 9781137335494
- 1137335491
- LCCN
- 2015038903
- OCLC
- 915495122
- Author
- Swain, Geoff, author.
- Title
- Khrushchev / Geoffrey Swain.
- Publisher
- London : Palgrave, [2016].
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- European history in perspectiveEuropean history in perspective.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1953 - 1985
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-997