Winner of the Pulitzer Prize<br> Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award</span></p><p><span> The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ru
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
โ Scribed by William Taubman
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Co
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 873
- Category
- Library
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