Nikita Khrushchev's proclamation from the floor of the United   Nations that "we will bury you" is one of the most chilling and memorable   moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis   to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career, the   motivation for Khrushchev's actions wasn't always clear. Many Americans   regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times   as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he   really think? Readers of Khrushchev's memoirs will now be able to answer   these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev   really said at the UN was "we will bury colonialism").    This is the second volume of three in what will be the only complete and   fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first   volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his story up to the close of   World War II. In the first section of this second volume, he covers the   period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation of the immediate   aftermath of the war to Stalin's death, the subsequent power struggle, and   the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to   Khrushchev's recollections and thoughts about various domestic and   international problems. In the second and third sections, he recalls the   virgin lands and other agricultural campaigns and his dealings with nuclear   scientists and weapons designers.  He also considers other sectors of the   economy, specifically construction and the provision of consumer goods,   administrative reform, and questions of war, peace, and disarmament. In the   last section, he discusses the relations between the party leadership and   the intelligentsia.     Included among the appendixes are the notebooks of Nina Petrovna   Kukharchuk, Khrushchev's wife.

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