《KHRUSHCHEV REMEMBERS》

Prologue3

PART ONE：FROM THE COAL MINES TO THE KREMLIN13

1.Early Career13

Years of Hardship13

First Rungs on the Party Ladder21

2.Party Work in Moscow36

From Industrial Academy to Politbureau36

City Father56

3.The Terror71

Collectivization71

The Purge Years75

Beria’s Rise to Power89

4.Return to the Ukraine105

Putting the Party Together Again105

Academician Paton116

Troubleshooting in the Tire Industry119

5.Prelude to the War126

Soviet-German Relations126

The Advance into Poland135

Sovietizing the Western Ukraine143

The Winter War with Finland150

The Red Army on the Eve of Barbarossa157

6.The Great Patriotic War165

The Darkest Hours165

The Kharkov Disaster182

6.The Great Patriotic War（continued）189

Stalingrad189

General Malinovsky200

A Visit from Comrade Ulbricht205

Kursk207

Victory211

Stalin and the Allies219

7.Famine in the Ukraine227

8.Stalin’s Last Years245

The Leningrad Affair245

Stalin’s Anti-Semitism258

Stalin’s Theoretical Writings269

The Nineteenth Party Congress276

The Doctors’ Plot282

Svetlanka287

Feasts and Holidays with Stalin296

Fear and Intrigue in the Inner Circle306

Stalin’s Death315

9.Succession321

Plotting Beria’s Downfall321

The Twentieth Party Congress341

PART TWO：THE WORLD OUTSIDE341

10.The Fraternal Countries357

11.The Korean War367

12.Burying the Hatchet with Tito374

13.The Geneva Summit392

14.Visit to London401

15.Restoring Order in Hungary415

16.Nasser，Suez，and the Aswan Dam430

17.The Berlin Crises452

18.Mao Tse-tung and the Schism461

19.Ho Chi Minh and the War in Vietnam480

20.Fidel Castro and the Caribbean Crisis488

21.Defending the Socialist Paradise506

Appendixes529

1.Chronology of Khrushchev’s Career529

2.Soviet Institutions and Terminology535

3.Khrushchev’s Kremlin Colleagues539

4.Khrushchev’s Secret Speech559

Index619