Taubman's book complements this with the political history. Taubman is undoubtedly an expert in the rise and fall of the USSR and this book on Mikhail Gorbachev was enlightening and even entertaining.

Taubman's book complements this with the political history. Deng Xiao Ping's reforms were wiser in that they foresaw this danger and prioritized economic reforms instead. Gorbachev was a fascinating man who rose from the poorest of the poor to the top of the Soviet power ladder in spite of having views contrary to most of his peers.

William Taubman Books. Gorbachev: His Life and Times. Nobody before Taubman has achieved an in-depth psychological portrai. .his monumental biography will become the standard personal portrait. Taubman has charmed more out of.

William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. His biography, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Paperback: 896 pages.

William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941 in New York City) is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003

William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941 in New York City) is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and received a . from Harvard University in 1962, an . from Columbia University in 1965, a Certificate of the Russian Institute in 1965, and a P. from Columbia University in 1969.

Oddly, Taubman develops this theme only as a kind of postscript, near the end of the book, and never seems quite sure how seriously to take Khrushchev's better impulses

He was a boor and a bully, volatile and often red-faced, given to strange look-at-me theatrics such as pulling off his shoe at the United Nations and banging it on the table. Oddly, Taubman develops this theme only as a kind of postscript, near the end of the book, and never seems quite sure how seriously to take Khrushchev's better impulses. That is, he never offers a decisive picture of how he sees his legacy or how we ought to see it.

William Taubman does not find it easy to say which way the scales should eventually ti.

Taubman's book is by far the best and most thorough contribution to understanding Khrushchev's personality and politics ever written, but he is not always as sure-footed in discussing more recent political phenomena. Kirjaluettelon tiedot. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Norton paperback.

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William Taubman's brilliant biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts - how the boy from a peasant background rose to the heights of power; how a single-minded, ambitious political player survived twenty years under Stalin; how he opened up to the West after Stalin's death and yet brought the world. Please provide me with your latest book news, views and details of Waterstones’ special offers.