William Taubman's brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts -- how the boy from a peasant background rose to the heights of power; how a single-minded, ambitious political player survived twenty years under Stalin; how he opened up to the West after Stalin's death and yet brought the world close to oblivion in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hugely acclaimed on hardback publication, and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is a magisterial work of political biography and a riveting insight into one of the giants of twentieth-century history. It is likely to remain the standard work for years to come.
CONTRIBUTORS: William TaubmanEAN: 9780743275644COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Simon & SchusterDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GeneralWIDTH: 130 cmSPINE:
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Russia, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Biography: historical, political and military, European history
A portrait unlikely to be surpassed any time soon in either richness or complexity....shines with mastery and authority.--Leon Aron
William Taubman is Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. His 2003 book, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, won both the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography in 2004. Taubman has been the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and chairs the Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington.
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William Taubman's brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts -- how the boy from a peasant background rose to the heights of power; how a single-minded, ambitious political player survived twenty years under Stalin; how he opened up to the West after Stalin's death and yet brought the world close to oblivion in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hugely acclaimed on hardback publication, and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is a magisterial work of political biography and a riveting insight into one of the giants of twentieth-century history. It is likely to remain the standard work for years to come.
CONTRIBUTORS: William TaubmanEAN: 9780743275644COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Simon & SchusterDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GeneralWIDTH: 130 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Russia, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Biography: historical, political and military, European history
William Taubman is Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. His 2003 book, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, won both the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography in 2004. Taubman has been the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and chairs the Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington.
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