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The Year I Was Peter the Great - 1956-Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia (Hardcover)
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The Year I Was Peter the Great - 1956-Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia (Hardcover)
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A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia-and molded the
future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic
correspondents.1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian
history. It was called "the year of the thaw"-a time when Stalin's
dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn
later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing
despair opened with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, then the
unpredictable leader of the Soviet Union. He astounded everyone by
denouncing the one figure who, up to that time, had been hailed as
a "genius," a wizard of communism-Josef Stalin himself. Now,
suddenly, this once unassailable god was being portrayed as a
"madman" whose idiosyncratic rule had seriously undermined
communism and endangered the Soviet state. This amazing switch from
hero to villain lifted a heavy overcoat of fear from the backs of
ordinary Russians. It also quickly led to anti-communist uprisings
in Eastern Europe, none more bloody and challenging than the one in
Hungary, which Soviet troops crushed at year's end. Marvin Kalb,
then a young diplomatic attache at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow,
observed this tumultuous year that foretold the end of Soviet
communism three decades later. Fluent in Russian, a doctoral
candidate at Harvard, he went where few other foreigners would dare
go, listening to Russian students secretly attack communism and
threaten rebellion against the Soviet system, traveling from one
end of a changing country to the other and, thanks to his
diplomatic position, meeting and talking with Khrushchev, who
playfully nicknamed him Peter the Great. In this, his fifteenth
book, Kalb writes a fascinating eyewitness account of a superpower
in upheaval and of a people yearning for an end to dictatorship.
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