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Then, as now, all of Eastern Europe was in a state of nationalist turmoil. Only three years after the death of Joseph Stalin, Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was trying to reform the brutal dictatorship that Stalin created, but each attempt at change triggered new disturbances. Khrushchev stunned the Communist Party Congress that February by his secret speech acknowledging for the first time Stalin's myriad crimes. That speech strengthened anti-Soviet dissidents throughout Eastern Europe...
...several pages," says Talbott, now editor at large, "I knew that I had in my hands one of the most fascinating and unusual documents ever to emerge from the Soviet Union." The papers, published in 1970 as the book Khrushchev Remembers, were transcripts of tapes recorded by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in forced retirement...
Ousted from power in 1964, Nikita Khrushchev became a nonperson, living out his last seven years under virtual house arrest in the village of Petrovo- Dalneye, on the outskirts of Moscow. To keep himself going but also to make sure that his side of the story survived, Khrushchev dictated hundreds of hours of reminiscences. Many of the tapes were smuggled to the West, and Little, Brown published two volumes of memoirs: Khrushchev Remembers in 1970 and Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament...
Sergei Khrushchev, one of seven new fellows at the Kennedy School of Government's IOP, is the son of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier who faced off against Kennedy during the missile crisis. The second Soviet fellow--Melor Sturua--wrote speeches for the elder Khrushchev while working for the Soviet newspaper Izvestia...
Sturua, a member of Nikita Kruschev's "brain trust" and a journalist with Izvestia for the past 40 years, will run a seminar called "Perestroika--Past, Present, and Future...