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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Volume 1, Commissar (1918-1945). Edited by Sergei Khrushchev. Translated by George Shriver. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-271-02332-5. Map. Photographs. Notes. Appendixes. Index. Pp. xxxvi, 935. 855.00.
Sergei Khrushchev has edited and released in English the first volume of the most complete and accurate version of his father's memoirs based on the 1999 Russian work titled Vremia, liudi, vlast (Time, People, Power). Volume 1 takes the reader through Nikita Khrushchev's early years up to the Soviet victory over Germany in 1945. This volume far exceeds in detail earlier editions of the Khrushchev memoirs and for readers of this journal especially, his observations of the war years are intriguing.
In the previous editions of his memoirs, the war was passed over fairly quickly. Not so here. Over four hundred...