Khrushschev Remembers : The Last Testament. [Marshal Zukov and the Anti-Party Group -- The Navy (The fall of Admiral Kuznetsov, the Rise of Admiral Gorshkov) -- Bombers and missiles (Tupolev and air power, Korolyov and rocketry, Building a missile army, Exploring the cosmos) -- The scientific intelligentsia (Academicians Kurchatov, Keldysh, Lavrentev, Academician Kapitsa : a confession, Academician Sakharov and the H-bomb) -- The creative intelligentsia -- Housing the people -- Feeding the people -- Poland : the making of an ally -- East Europe : the making of an alliance (Rumania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Forming the Warsaw PAct) -- Rough spots in the Alliance (The Polish October, Disputes with Comercon, Trimming the Warsaw Pact]

Krushschev, Nikita Sergeyevich. [Edward Crankshaw, Jerrold Schecter, Strobe Talbott]

Published by Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, 1974, 1974

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xxxi, 602 pp. ; LCCN:74-4095 ; red cloth in dustjacket ; thick volume with numerous photographs ; Contents: Marshal Zukov and the Anti-Party Group -- The Navy (The fall of Admiral Kuznetsov, the Rise of Admiral Gorshkov) -- Bombers and missiles (Tupolev and air power, Korolyov and rocketry, Building a missile army, Exploring the cosmos) -- The scientific intelligentsia (Academicians Kurchatov, Keldysh, Lavrentev, Academician Kapitsa : a confession, Academician Sakharov and the H-bomb) -- The creative intelligentsia -- Housing the people -- Feeding the people -- Poland : the making of an ally -- East Europe : the making of an alliance (Rumania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Forming the Warsaw PAct) -- Rough spots in the Alliance (The Polish October, Disputes with Comercon, Trimming the Warsaw Pact, Conflict with Rumania) -- China (Origins of the schism, First visit to Peking, Mao in Moscow, Second visit to Peking, The Formosa Strait Crisis, Third visit to Peking, The Albanians and the Moscow Conference, Military technology, The hundred flowers, The Great LEap Forward, The Bulgarian Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution, The Border, Is there a yellow peril? -- FOreign policy and travels -- Neighbors (Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Nehru adn the Bilai Steel Mill, The Sino-Indian War) -- Indonesia and Burma (Sukarno, Aidit, Stopover in Rangoon -- Africa and the Middle East (African leaders, Relations with the Arab World, The Six-Day War) -- Contacts with the West (DeGaulle's wartime visit to Moscow, Harriman and MacDuffie, The origins of the Cold War, Adenauer's visit to Moscow, John Foster Dulles, Nixon and the Kitchen Debate) -- Eisenhower and the American Tour -- The Tour of France -- The U-2 Affair (A plane is downed, The Paris Summit) -- The United Nations -- John F. Kennedy (The Vienna Summit, The Berlin Crisis, The Cuban Missile Crisis) -- Visit to Scandinavia. ; name on front endpaper, else FINE/FINE. Seller Inventory # 005895

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Title: Khrushschev Remembers : The Last Testament. ...

Publisher: Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, 1974

Publication Date: 1974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

Book Type: Book