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Krushchev / Geoffrey Swain.

By: Series: European history in perspectivePublisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: 282Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137335494 (paperback)
  • 9781137335500 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 923.7 23 S 971
LOC classification:
  • DK275.K5 S93 2016
Other classification:
  • BIO010000 | HIS032000 | HIS037070
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: --1. Becoming a Party Apparatchik - 1894-1929 -- 2. Stalin's Favourite, 1929-1941 -- 3. Questioning Stalin, 1941-1953 -- 4. Dethroning Stalin, 1953-19565. -- Ousting Stalinists -- 6. Constructing Communism at Home, 1958-627. -- Confronting Capitalism -- 8. The Reformer Ousted.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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كتاب كتاب Central Library المكتبة المركزية 923 S 971 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available قاعة الكتب

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: --1. Becoming a Party Apparatchik - 1894-1929 -- 2. Stalin's Favourite, 1929-1941 -- 3. Questioning Stalin, 1941-1953 -- 4. Dethroning Stalin, 1953-19565. -- Ousting Stalinists -- 6. Constructing Communism at Home, 1958-627. -- Confronting Capitalism -- 8. The Reformer Ousted.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.