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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, edited by Sergei Khrushchev ; memoirs translated by George Shriver ; supplementary material translated by Stephen Shenfield

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev

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edited by Sergei Khrushchev ; memoirs translated by George Shriver ; supplementary material translated by Stephen Shenfield

Vol.1., Commisar. The memoirs -- The beginning of the road -- A little about myself -- The fourteenth party conference -- A few words about the NEP -- The fourteenth 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 Ukraine again -- Ukraine-Moscow (crossroad of the 1930s) -- The second world war approaches -- The beginning of the second world war -- Events on the eve of war -- 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 Ukraine -- Forward to victory! -- Postwar reflections -- The far east after the great patriotic war -- War memoirsVol.2., Memoirs: From victory day to the Twentieth Party Congress: The first postwar years; In Moscow again; Some comments on certain individuals; One of Stalin's shortcomings, Anti-Semitism; Beria and others; Stalin's family and his daughter Svetlana; Stalin's last years; The Korean War; Doctor's plot; The Nineteenth Party Congress; After the Nineteenth Party Congress; Economic problems of Socialism in the USSR; Stalin about himself; The death of Stalin; Once again in Beria; After Stalin's death; From the Nineteenth Party Congress to the Twentieth; After the Twentieth Party Congress; A few words about government power, Zhukov, and others -- How to make life better: Build more, and with high quality; My work in agriculture; The Virgin Lands; We have not achieved the abundance we desire; Agriculture and science; Academician Vilyams and his grass-field crop-rotation system; The agricultural field as a chessboard; A few words about the machine and tractor stations, and about specialization; We suffer from the imperfection of our organizational system; Corn, a crop I gave much attention to; The shelves in our stores are empty -- The Postwar Defense of the USSR, structuring the Soviet Armed Forces: Stalin's legacy; The Soviet Navy; Airplanes and missiles; Antimissile defenses; Tanks and cannon; The problem of transport, wheels or tank treads? -- Scientists and defense technology: Andrei Sakharov and nuclear weapons; Cooperation on outer space; Kurchatov, Keldysh, Sakharov, Tupolev, Lavrentyev, Kapitsa, and others -- Issues of peace and war: Reducing the size of the Soviet Army; On peace and war; Nuclear war aaand conventional war; Arms race or peaceful coexistence; Government spending -- Reasons with the Intelligentsia: I am not a judge -- Appendixes: The last romantic, Anatoly Strelyany; Memorandum of N. S. Khrushchev on military reform; Memorandum of KGB chairman Yuri Andropov to the CPSU Central Committee: "On limiting the receipt of foreign correspondence by N. S. Khrushchev"; Announcement of the death of N. S. Khrushchev; The sendoff, Georgy Fyodorov; Sanitation Day (notes of a contemporary on the funeral of N. S. Khrushchev), Anatoly Zlobin; Mama's notebooks, 1971-1984, Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva; Biographies; Index