Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971) was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

• Contents Captions to Photographs Translators Preface Editors Foreword Andrei Bitov. The Baldest and the Boldest Abbreviations and Acronyms The Memoirs Prologue Part I. The Beginning of the Road A Little About Myself The Fourteenth Party Conference A Few Words About the NEP The Fifteenth Party Congress The Move to Kharkov The Move to Kiev At the Industrial Academy Personal Acquaintance with Stalin Moscow Workdays The Kirov Assassination Some Consequences of the Kirov Assassination In the Ukraine Again The Ukraine-Moscow (Crossroads of the 1930s) The Second World War Approaches The Beginning of the Second World War Events on the Eve of War Part II. The Great Patriotic War The Difficult Summer of 1941 People and Events of Summer and Fall 1941 1942: From Winter to Summer By the Ruins of Stalingrad Turn of the Tide at Stalingrad The Road to Rostov Before the Battle of Kursk and at Its Beginning To the Dnieper! Kiev Is Ours Again! We Liberate the Ukraine Forward to Victory! Postwar Reflections The Far East After the Great Patriotic War War Memoirs Appendices A Short Biography of N. S. Khrushchev L. Lasochko. The Khrushchev Family Line: A Historical Note Sergei Khrushchev. The History of the Creation and Publication of the Khrushchev Memoirs (1967-1999) Conversation with N. S. Khrushchev at the Party Control Committee Biographies Index

“Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most important political leaders of the twentieth century. Without his memoirs, neither the rise and fall of the Soviet Union nor the history of the Cold War can be fully understood. By dictating his memoirs and publishing them in the West, Khrushchev transformed himself from the USSR’s leader to one of its first dissidents. His remarkably candid recollections were a harbinger of glasnost to come. Like virtually all memoirs, his have a personal and political agenda, but even what might be called Khrushchev’s ‘myth of himself’ is vital for understanding how this colorful figure could place his contradictory stamp on his country and the world. The fact that the full text of Khrushchev’s memoirs will now be available in English is cause for rejoicing.”—William Taubman, winner of the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his book Khrushchev: The Man and His Era