KHRUSHCHEV: THE MAN AND HIS ERA (En papel)

WILLIAM TAUBMAN, SCRIBNER, 2004
ISBN 9780743231664

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Datos del libro

Nº de páginas: 896 págs.
Editorial: SCRIBNER
Lengua: INGLÉS
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
ISBN: 9780743231664
Año edicón: 2004
Plaza de edición: LONDON

Sinopsis

William Taubman's brilliant 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. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a man constantly torn between benevolence and malevolence -- a man who made himself cultured and yet who could never really escape his image as a bullying country bumpkin (most famously demonstrated by his interruption of Macmillan's speech to the UN in 1960 by banging