The year I was Peter the Great : 1956--Khrushchev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia / Marvin Kalb.

The year I was Peter the Great : 1956--Khrushchev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia / Marvin Kalb.

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 Nikit...

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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author: Kalb, Marvin L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017.
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Kalb, Marvin L. > Travel > Soviet Union.
Diplomatic and consular service, American > Soviet Union.
Diplomats > United States > Biography.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Soviet Union > History > 1953-1985.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Roots
  • War, college, and basketball
  • Teddy, Joyce, and journalism
  • From Cambridge to Moscow
  • Govorit Moskva
  • "Moscow calling"
  • De-Stalinization=destabilization
  • The thaw
  • From Zhukov to Poznan
  • Into the heartland
  • A summertime break in Central Asia
  • Where Stalin is still worshipped
  • Back to a familiar chill
  • "Dark, frightening, and tragic days"
  • Uvarov, Sasha, and Stalin's ghost
  • At the end of the arc
  • Postscript. Five months later ...

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