Khrushchev, Sergei N., and Benson, Shirley (Translator)
University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 765, [1] pages. Illustrations. Includes Foreword by William Taubman, as well as Preface, Prologue, Epilogue: Stagnation, and Index. Annotations by William C. Wohlforth. Part one includes Start, Acceleration, Testing, and Breakthrough; Part two includes The Race, Crisis, and Departure. There is also an Epilogue: Stagnation, as well as an Index. The book is inscribed by the author, Sergei N. Khrushchev, on the half title page. Signature reads: To Joyce, Sergei N. Khrushchev, July 25, 2001. This is a fascinating portrait of Nikita Khrushchev, a man of immense vitality, a fervent Communist, convinced that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States, and the process by which he began subconsciously to understand that the system itself did not work. In this book, Sergei Khrushchev tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side, and this is his most important contribution. More