The Year I Was Peter the Great - 1956 - Khrushchev, StalinÆs Ghost, and a Young American in Russia

Klappentext A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia - and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents. Marvin Kalb! then a young diplomatic attache! observed this tumultuous year that foretold the end of Soviet communism. 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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• Authors: Marvin Kalb, Marvin Kalb
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2017
• EAN: 9780815731610
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-3161-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Russia, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)