I don't know why I started with this one but I think this might have been mentioned somewhere, and got stuck in my head.
Anyways I finished it, and the first thought is that this is a bit biased. This doesn't mean that I'm in favour of Khurshchev but this put the other world leaders in a brighter light which was a bit far from the truth.
As the name suggests, anybody who follow a global politics, and trend will know that this is about Nikita Sergei Khrushchev. This is not really a biography, and more like a commentary of his career. The rise and fall of Khurshchev, and the conditions of Soviet Empire in the first half of 20th century.
The narrative moves around the Khurshchev's rise from a child of peasant to become a close aide of Stalin, and eventually surpass him in taking up the highest power in contemporary Russia.
He took up various roles, and successful or not he did take the advantage of the situation to get whatever he could to advance himself. Given the situation in Russia at that point of time where Stalin was changing the whole Russia. and everybody who was part of the apparatus was trying to grab as much as they can, he was not very different from his peer.
There are a lot of instances where he is portrayed as a mastermind who was plotting unimaginable things but I think that he was more like a person who stood up when he saw the opportunity, and took his chances, and came out successful. Given the history was bloody, marked with many purges but immensely significant, he could have been simply written him off but he made his place as a statesman who ushered his country in a new age which he himself could not witness.
Anyways I finished it, and the first thought is that this is a bit biased. This doesn't mean that I'm in favour of Khurshchev but this put the other world leaders in a brighter light which was a bit far from the truth.
As the name suggests, anybody who follow a global politics, and trend will know that this is about Nikita Sergei Khrushchev. This is not really a biography, and more like a commentary of his career. The rise and fall of Khurshchev, and the conditions of Soviet Empire in the first half of 20th century.
The narrative moves around the Khurshchev's rise from a child of peasant to become a close aide of Stalin, and eventually surpass him in taking up the highest power in contemporary Russia.
He took up various roles, and successful or not he did take the advantage of the situation to get whatever he could to advance himself. Given the situation in Russia at that point of time where Stalin was changing the whole Russia. and everybody who was part of the apparatus was trying to grab as much as they can, he was not very different from his peer.
There are a lot of instances where he is portrayed as a mastermind who was plotting unimaginable things but I think that he was more like a person who stood up when he saw the opportunity, and took his chances, and came out successful. Given the history was bloody, marked with many purges but immensely significant, he could have been simply written him off but he made his place as a statesman who ushered his country in a new age which he himself could not witness.
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