Two prominent Soviet dissidents portray Khrushchev in power as a shrewd, complex, decisive, and impetuous innovator, impatient to remedy defects in the Soviet system but carried away by initial successes

Khrushchev

Biographies & Memoirs

MEDVEDEV, Roy A.

Medvedev, Zhores A.

Historical

Columbia University Press

Text: English, Russian (translation)

The October Revolution

History

Russia

An examination of the Soviet dissident movement traces the course of the "democratic movement" from Khrushchev's revelations about the crimes of Stalin through the 1970s

On Soviet Dissent: Interviews with Piero Ostellino

Europe

The most comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953, this edition is an extensively revised and expanded version of a classic work. The internationally known historian Roy Medvedev has included more than one-hundred new interviews, unpublished memoirs, and archives from survivors of Stalin's death camps. This updated version of a classic work was written during a time of great change in the Soviet Union. With the advent of perestroika and glasnost, more progressive leadership has sought to demolish the Stalinist system which had finally crippled the Soviet Union and incited public discontent. Let History Judge contains new material on purges in 1929-1931 and terror against the peasantry; the Kirov assasination and show trials; the "great terror" from 1936-1938, which caused irreparable damage to the Soviet Union and left it vulnerable for Hilter's attack in 1941; the trial of Bukharin; Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder in Mexico; Stalin's miscalculations and errors during the war, which cost the Soviet Union nearly 25 million in casualties; new purges from 1946-1953; and the actual vote of the Seventeenth Congress, which decided Stalin's candidacy. Since the first edition was finished by the author in 1969 and published in 1971, dozens of new informants have come forward to give their evidence to Roy Medvedev. Distinguished Soviet literary, cultural, and political figures like the late Alexander Twardovsky, Ilja Ehrenburg, Konstantin Simonov, Yuri Trifono, Mikhail Romm and many others have accumulated documentary records of Stalinism in anticipation of an expanded version.

Let History Judge

Americas

Evaluates and considers the Bolshevik Revolution as Lenin's creation and looks at the hybrid society which emerged in Lenin's wake.

Publisher

From within the Soviet Union, a critique of the Soviet political system by the celebrated dissident scholar. Roy Medvedev demonstrates, in engrossing and sharp detail, how the vast gulf between Marxist-Leninist principles and official Soviet attitudes and procedures turned vital theory into hollow dogma. Focusing on the rigidities of official ideology, he makes brilliantly clear the ways in which an excessively centralized and cumbersome bureaucratic structure was disastrous for the economic, intellectual, and moral development of Soviet society-keeping it dangerously insular in an era of increasing internationalism.

On Socialist Democracy (Norton Library (Paperback))

W.W.Norton&Company

Nikolai Bukharin was one of the most eminent leaders and theoreticians of the Bolsheviks, a man who had become famous long before the Russian Revolution. He was idolized by the youth of Soviet Russia, who identified with him and drew much of their inspiration from his writings. Prominent among the organizers of the revolution, he served for twenty years on the Central Committee and for ten years as a member of the Politburo. From 1917 to 1929 he was in charge of the newspaper Pravda, and though he and Lenin often disagreed, Lenin referred to him in his Testament as "deservedly the favorite of the Party." On the night of March 15,1938, after a lengthy trial initiated by Stalin for "crimes against the Party", Nikolai Bukharin and seventeen comrades were executed. To this day, although some efforts are being made to restore his name, it is still banned in the Soviet Union. Now, working from previously unavailable sources and interviews, the Soviet historian Roy A. Medvedev gives us a clear view of the dramatic events of the Soviet purges and the last years of this sensitive, betrayed hero. Roy A. Medvedev gives a clear view of the dramatic events of the Soviet purges and the last years of this sensitive, betrayed hero. Needless to say, this book will not be published in the Soviet Union.

Nikolay Bukharin: The Last Years (English and Russian Edition)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

“Medvedev’s account of Bukharin’s persecution, which served as the model for Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon, is grim, dramatic and poignant.” ―Publishers Weekly Nikolai Bukharin was one of the most eminent leaders and theoreticians of the Bolsheviks, a man who had become famous long before the Russian Revolution. He was idolized by the youth of Soviet Russia, who identified with him and drew much of their inspiration from his writings. Prominent among the organizers of the revolution, he served for twenty years on the Central Committee and for ten years as a member of the Politburo. From 1917 to 1929 he was in charge of the newspaper Pravda, and though he and Lenin often disagreed, Lenin referred to him in his Testament as “deservedly the favorite of the Party."

Nikolai Bukharin: The Last Years

Leaders & Notable People

The Samizdat Register

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

This is a book worth owning: A probing account into the evils of Stalinism authored by a Soviet historian nearly two decades before the USSR collapsed.

Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism

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Khrushchev

The October Revolution

On Soviet Dissent: Interviews with Piero Ostellino

Let History Judge

The October Revolution

On Socialist Democracy (Norton Library (Paperback))

Nikolay Bukharin: The Last Years (English and Russian Edition)

Nikolai Bukharin: The Last Years

The Samizdat Register

Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism