Khrushchev in power : unfinished reforms, 1961-1964 / Sergei Khrushchev ; translated by George Shriver.

A full reckoning of Nikita Khrushchev's accomplishments and failures cannot be complete without looking beyond his foreign policy initiatives to assess his efforts to introduce domestic policy reforms in the Soviet Union. Sergei Khrushchev tells the full story of those efforts during the years...

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Main Author: Khrushchev, Sergeĭ (Author)
Other Authors: Shriver, George, 1936-2020 (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Russian
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014.
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Uniform Title:Nikita Khrushchev. Reformator.
Table of Contents:
  • Title page ; Copyright page ; Contents ; Preface ; Part 1- At a Crossroads: 1961 ; Chapter 1- The New Ruble ; Chapter 2- If You Don't Oversee it Yourself ...
  • Chapter 3- Kozlov in Charge
  • Chapter 4- Grisha Faibishenko and Petya Rokotov; Chapter 5- Kozlov in Charge, Continued ; Chapter 6- Day by Day; Chapter 7- The Film Our Nikita Sergeyevich and the Personality Cult; Chapter 8- Family Matters ; Chapter 9- Communism ; Chapter 10- Again About Stalin ; Chapter 11- Term Limits for Everyone ; Chapter 12- Kozlov Makes His Move ; Chapter 13- A Dangerous Partnership.
  • Chapter 14- Disputes over Agricultural Methods Chapter 15- A Lesson in Diplomacy ; Chapter 16- a Canal from the Baltic to the Black Sea ; Chapter 17- What Will Our Lives Be Like? ; Part 2- Time for a Change: 1962; Chapter 18- A Speech in Minsk ; chapter 19- How to Fill the Government Granaries? ; Chapter 20- Production Administrations Replace Regional Party Committees ; Chapter 21- Day by Day; Chapter 22- The Dawn of Microelectronics ; Chapter 23- From a Price System Based on a Single Standard, to the Novocherkassk Tragedy ; Chapter 24- Dwindling Reserves of Trust.
  • Chapter 25- The Bill from Ashkhabad Chapter 26- On Vacation with Zahir Shah; Chapter 27- Liberman, Khrushchev, Zasyadko; Chapter 28- Still More Power to the Regions and Reliance on Younger People; Chapter 29- Burning the Bridges ; Chapter 30- The Burden of Being a Superpower; Chapter 31- A Literary Treasure Island
  • Chapter 32- The Khrushchev Constitution; Chapter 33- Day by Day; Chapter 34- The Yugoslav Model ; Chapter 35- How People Were Living ; Chapter 36- Problems, Problems, Problems ; Chapter 37- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, July-October 1962.
  • Chapter 38- Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Novy Mir, and Censorship, November 1962Chapter 39- The New Generation in Art and Politics, April-November 1962; Chapter 40- Suslov Goes on the Offensive, December 1, 1962; Chapter 41- Strike While the Iron Is Hot, December 17, 1962; Chapter 42- Suslov Advances Further, December 24 and 26, 1962; Chapter 43- The Film Outpost of Ilyich, February 1963; Chapter 44- The Decisive Battle, March 1963 ; Chapter 45- The Thunderstorm Fizzles Out, April 25-June 18, 1963; Chapter 46- Last Attempt at a Counterattack, July 7-21, 1963.
  • Chapter 47- Back on Track, July-August 1963Chapter 48- After the Storm; Part 3- Unforeseen Delay: 1963 ; Chapter 49- The Year Bagan as Usual; Chapter 50- Mathematics in Economics ; Chapter 51- The Council on Science ; Chapter 52- Fresh Vegetables for the Winter Table ; Chapter 53- What We Managed to Accomplish in the Chemical Industry ; Chapter 54- End of the Era of Five-Story Apartment Buildings ; Chapter 55- Day by Day ; Chapter 56- Horizontal vs. Vertical ; Chapter 57- What if?; Chapter 58- Dust Storm; Chapter 59- From Chemistry to Agrochemistry.