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The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind tells the story of Leonid Khrushchev, the author's grandfather, and the oldest son of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. Part political memoir, part historical investigation, this family chronicle is a window into Leonid's life and death and what that means in contemporary Russia. Khrushcheva's search began thirty years ago after a chance conversation with Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin's all-powerful foreign minister. What inspired the author to finally document the Khrushchev family's past was a persistent accusation in Russian media that twenty-five-year-old Leonid--a fighter pilot during World War II--did not die in battle in 1943 as was once presumed, but instead was executed by Stalin for his alleged desertion and service to the Nazis. So what happened to that lost Khrushchev? Khrushcheva also addresses the legacy of her great grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, whose leadership from 1953 to 1964 has much bearing on Russian politics today.
- Sales Rank: #1244618 in Books
- Published on: 2014-05-13
- Released on: 2014-05-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.88" h x .73" w x 5.88" l, .96 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 324 pages
Review
"The most interesting part of the book is... the author's analysis... Nina Khrushcheva shows how the attacks on Leonid are perpetrated by the same journalists, politicians and propagandists who are trying to rehabilitate Stalin, and to stoke anti-Westernism. Reform, in Vladimir Putin's Russia, is akin to treason. She uses the controversy to show how modern Russia is still choked by undigested lumps of Soviet history."--The Economist
"A woman who prefers simplicity, Nina Khrushcheva is direct, blunt and, at times, wickedly funny. This particular gulag in her book refers to a mind-set that includes the hope that the next czar will be better than the last. It also refers to the still-lingering sense among many Russians that Russia was better off before its post-Stalinist reforms."--Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post
"Nina Khrushcheva's 'The Lost Khrushchev' [is] the haunting story of her grandfather, the son of the Soviet leader."--Peter Baker, The New York Times
From the Inside Flap
- "A fascinating read, part detective story, part family history, and all relevant to politics in Russia today." --Jack F. Matlock, Jr., US Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1987-1991, author of Autopsy on an Empire and Reagan and Gorbachev.
- "This is a wonderful book, beautifully written and very moving. It does a great service to Russia and the enduring legacy of the Khrushchev family. Russia's often-tragic history, great bravery, enormous human strengths (and weaknesses) and unique culture all shine in 'The Lost Khrushchev." --Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University, author of "To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace."
- "In demolishing the Putin-era slander that her fighter pilot grandfather, Leonid Khrushchev, killed in action in 1943, had been a Nazi spy, Nina Khrushcheva offers not just an understanding portrait of a rebellious young tearaway turned hero but a profound glimpse into the ""gulag of the Russian mind,"" in which a permanent disposition to despotism and paranoia coexists with fleeting efforts at freedom and truth," --Lord Robert Skidelsky.
- "Nina Khrushcheva's deeply personal and fascinating book takes us into the bosom of what was, half a century ago, the First Family of the USSR. The story she tells has elements of tragedy, courage, and intrigue. It adds fresh information and a new human dimension to a crucial prelude to the eventual collapse of the Soviet dictatorship: Khrushchev's reforms and, when he was a pensioner and nonperson, his successors' effort, ultimately unsuccessful, to besmirch his legacy." --Strobe Talbott, President, the Brookings Institution, editor and translator of Khrushchev's memoirs.
From the Back Cover
Nina L. Khrushcheva a professor of International Affairs at New School University in New York City. She is a member of Council on Foreign Relations and has written for Newsweek, TheNew York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and other publications. Her books include Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, published by Yale University Press in 2008.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Essential Reading
By Florian
"The Lost Khrushchev" is written by Nina Khrushcheva, Nikita Khrushchev's great-grandaugher on her mother's side. Although it is just a technical description of the relations, as like everything in Russia things are more complex, more tragic and more romantic. Nina's mother, Yulia Khrushcheva, is the daughter of Leonid Khrushchev and Lyubov Sizykh. Leonid, Nikita Khrushchev's son from his first marriage to Yefrosinia Pisareva, died in the 1943 World War II battle over the Orel region; his wife Lyuba was arrested and sent to Gulag in Mordova, one of thousands of detention camps for Soviet political prisoners across the vast country. After losing her parents Yulia became her grandfather's adoptive daughter and her step-grandmother Nina Kukharchuk (Khrushcheva), Khrushchev's second wife, became a mother to her. The story Nina Khrushcheva is telling in "The Lost Khrushchev" is a personal look at her grandfather's legacy and her family as the inheritors of that legacy. Khrushchev, Political Commissar of the Soviet Front during World War II, Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, First Secretary of the Communist Party of USSR from 1953 to 1964 and the Soviet Premier. He was the first one to attack totalitarianism in his 1956 "Secret Speech" at the Twentieth Communist Party Congress denouncing Joseph Stalin's "pernicious cult of personality and its consequences," and launching the period known as the Thaw, when millions of Soviet citizens were released from the Gulag. The Thaw unlocked the door to better international contacts, and most importantly to a more frank exchange of ideas, making the intellectuals-poets, writers and artists-a catalyst for the new era of openness and debate. However, despite all the changes the Soviet Union, and now Russia, have gone through since the Thaw, this openness is seen not as a jump-start of the Russian liberation, but as a plot to undermine a great nation. Today Khrushchev's legacy is in demise, and our family story is not just the one of struggling with and surviving Stalinism; it is also a tale of enduring the most surprising consequence of de-Stalinization-the return of the Stalin (and state) worship. Khrushcheva's general argument is that Russia has reverted to a form of Stalinism under Vladimir Putin. It looks at a particular Russian frame of mind, which she calls the "Gulag syndrome." Her political analysis becomes only more relevant through the prism of her Kremlin's family story, that is the book is a brilliant example of how to find deeper meaning in individual life.
Indeed, growing up Khrushchev is an experience very few people can narrate. Khrushcheva's is not a simple story of privilege and glamour. It is a more complicated story of disenfranchisement and survival. Closely intertwined with that family saga is the escalation of the Cold War, its demise, and now, the post-Soviet Stalinism of Putin's variation.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
timely and well written
By LSP
Given Russia's current militant involvement in Ukraine the author, also due to her own Kremlin background, explains well the anatomy of Vladimir Putin's behavior. A nice combination of history, personal story and politics makes the book a worthwhile read for anybody who wants to understand what drives Putin's actions and what is in store for Russia.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Tribute To Russian Literary Tradition!
By Art Basel Miami Devotee
Nina Khrushcheva's new book "The Lost Khrushchev" is an unusual hybrid, a tribute to the Russian literary tradition that mixes genres and narrative styles. It does merge various forms without sacrificing the content. It is a touching memoir that provide glimpses into what Nikita Khrushchev, the US Cold War foe, was like at home. Moreover, Khrushcheva speaks about history in such vivid terms that it makes of enormous contemporary relevance, especially given Russia's current assertiveness in Ukraine and other places. The books is as important to those readers who like personal stories and dramas as it is relevant to those who want to better understand Russia or US-Russian confrontations over the last century.
A great read!
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