The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956—Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia by Marvin Kalb

The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956—Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia

Marvin Kalb

289 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir informative tense slow-paced

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A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a time when Stali...

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