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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fourth printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Dustjacket has light rubbing, else Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm. xvi, [2], 219, [3] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Chronology. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Black mark on top edge. Foreword by Strobe Talbott. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April 1894 - 11 September 1971) was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. This volume covers the Stalin era, foreign relations, and other affairs too sensitive for the earlier volumes. Beginning in 1966, Khrushchev began his memoirs. He dictated them into a tape recorder and recorded indoors, knowing that every word would be heard by the KGB. However, the security agency made no attempt to interfere until 1968, when Khrushchev was ordered to turn over his tapes, which he refused to do. Khrushchev was hospitalized with heart ailments when his son Sergei was approached by the KGB and told that there was a plot afoot by foreign agents to steal the memoirs. Sergei Khrushchev turned over the materials to the KGB since the KGB could steal the originals anyway, but copies had been made, some of which had been transmitted to a Western publisher. Sergei instructed that the smuggled memoirs should be published, which they were in 1970 under the title Khrushchev Remembers. Under some pressure, Nikita Khrushchev signed a statement that he had not given the materials to any publisher. Upon publication in the West, Izvestia denounced them as a fraud.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition black cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes Foreword by Strobe Talbott; Appendix: Chronology of Khrushchev's Career and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and a black-and-white map. "Glasnost has made possible the publication of new material from one of the most extraordinary archives of the twentieth century, the memoirs of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev. The earlier volumes . established the memoirs as the single most comprehensive, candid, and authoritative firsthand account of the inner workings of the Kremlin leadership. Now there is more ." - from the Foreword by Strobe Talbott. "When the tapes dictated by Nikita Khrushchev in retirement first made their way to the West, there were key gaps in the narrative. Khrushchev himself had authorized the deletions, for apparent political reasons. Two decades would pass before those gaps could be filled. Now, newly released material provides provocative information. Among the revelations: Stalin confirmed the "very significant" contribution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the Soviet atomic bomb project; In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, Fidel Castro urged Khrushchev to launch a nuclear attack on the United States; Khrushchev wanted to return to Japan islands in the Kuril chain seized by the USSR at the end of World War II, and thereby restore normal relations between the two countries. The new tapes also provide valuable information on the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and its secret protocol "giving" Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia to the Soviet Union; fascinating background on the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Leonid Brezhnev's subsequent suppression of the author and his works; revealing and acid asides on Brezhnev and his allies; and Khrushchev's candid thoughts and doubts on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the crushing of the Prague Spring. Fascinating historical material, The Glasnost Tapes offers a wealth of insight into the present turbulent and shifting situation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe." - from the inner front jacket flap.