The Khrushchev Era, 1953-1964History and politics students alike will welcome this new Seminar Study which analyses the Khrushchev era -- a critical period of Soviet and world history. It was Khrushchev who, in 1957, finally filled the political vacuum left by the death of Stalin in 1953. He was an erratic, impulsive, inspirational and innovative leader who addressed the fundamental problems of the country - and yet he was, Martin McCauley argues, "a brilliant failure''. In this study the author explores all aspects of the Khrushchev era: including reforms in agriculture, economic policy, crises in Eastern Europe, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, de-Stalinisation and Khrushchev's attempts to reform the Communist Party. |
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... wanted to abandon Kiev to the advancing Germans and then regroup elsewhere , but the vozhd would not hear of it . This led to heavy losses . On another occasion Khrushchev wanted to call off the Kharkov offensive in March 1942 , after ...
... wanted to use to attain your vile ends . You wanted the country to revert to the order that existed under the personality cult . You wanted to kill people . You measure others by your own yardstick . But you are mistaken . We apply ...
... wanted to make Communist Party rule more effective and thereby more secure . He wanted to make every official accountable to him , to the Party and to the people . However , this meant changing the modus operandi of many officials . It ...
Contents
Khrushchev in Moscow | 4 |
Rebuilding Ukraine | 11 |
DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS | 17 |
Copyright | |
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