Word: crankshaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in six years, in issuing a statement from him denying that he had "passed on" his reminiscences to any publication. "This is a fabrication and I am indignant at this," Khrushchev said. His language, however, fell far short of a blanket denial. Moreover, British Sovietologist Edward Crankshaw, who wrote an introduction to the forthcoming book, pointed out that the Kremlin was almost forced to counter such a publishing coup in the West with some kind of denial. "They could not do anything else," said Crankshaw. "What could you expect in the circumstances...
...introduction, Edward Crankshaw, noted British Kremlinologist and a Khrushchev biographer, characterized the volume: "Here was Khrushchev, quite unmistakably speaking, a voice from limbo, and a very lively voice at that. . . An extraordinary, a unique personal history." As for the former Soviet Premier himself, he was reported last week to be at his villa, 25 miles from Moscow, bedridden with "cardiac insufficiency...