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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This is a very readable book due to the style ...By Charles W. RiendeauThis is a very readable book due to the style of the author. But, it is also one of least fact-based biographies I have ever read. Partly this is due to the time in which it was written ( c 1966) when acquiring information not "officially" released by the was very, very hard. It was, for its time, I suppose what was available. In this time, I would suggest biographies of Khrushchev that were written in the early 90s when access to the KGB files and public records will have allowed the author to gather a more comprehensive set of facts.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good historical readBy ceharvYou really cannot understand the full scope of 20th century history without understanding . This book is a very interesting read about someone who, at a minimum, lead a very interesting life in a very interesting time. The pace is quick and the history important and puts much of our (in the U.S.) history in perspective. You do not already have to have in depth knowledge of the 20th century to follow the book0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. CONFUSEDBy Kathleen JostAll about polit-this and bureau that, and yeah he was of peasant stock but the man never comes through. A self-serving exercise in i once knew nikki or i knew somebody who did. Couldn't finish it.

This is the story of the rise and fall of one man against the background of his countryrsquo;s historymdash;bloody, tumultuous, yet immensely significantmdash;since the revolution in 1917. Nikita Sergei Khrushchev was born in 1894 at Kalinovka where Great Russia borders the Ukraine. He was the child of peasants driven from the land by poverty. His grandfather had been born a serf; his father was a landless worker traveling to the coal fields of the Donetz Valley in the winter, in spring returning to the land. Thus the infant Khrushchev was one of a vast family of nearly 100 million peasants, mainly illiterate, latterly liberated from serfdom. He was a child without history, and as an infant lucky to survive. Sixty years later, nevertheless, he was to become the dominant leader of the Soviet Empire, now the home of 220 million souls, disposing of a massive and complex economy, a vast and modern army, navy and air force and presiding over the launching of the first man into space. In this biography Edward Crankshaw describes how this was achieved, provides a vivid and convincing appreciation of Khrushchevrsquo;s extraordinary and contradictory character, and at the same time places him firmly within the context of Russian history and society. He goes on to answer the most difficult question of all: How was it that this peasant from Kalinovka, who rose to become Stalinrsquo;s lieutenant and close collaborator in his achievements and his crimes, was transformed into a major statesman who may be remembered chiefly as a man of peace? There is no one better qualified than Edward Crankshaw to write this book. Over the years he has come to be recognised as the wisest, most sane and perspicacious of experts on Soviet affairs. This book is a brilliant and enthralling study of an astonishing man who brought his country to the threshold of a new age which he himself could not enter.

About the AuthorEdward Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs. Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in the nonconformist public school Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. He started working as a journalist for a few months at . In the 1930s he lived in , , teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German caused him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return he went back to write for The Times and began to write reviewsmdash;mostly musicalmdash;for The Spectator, The Bookman, and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth. Crankshaw's book on Nazi terror, (1956), was widely read and in 1963 he began to produce the ambitious literary works, often on historical or monumental moments in Russian Political history.

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