Word: crankshaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since LIFE felt that it could not disclose specific information about its acquisition, the question was how to prove its authenticity. Among other supporting evidence was the conviction of British Sovietologist Edward Crankshaw, who pronounced the manuscript "quite unmistakably" the former Premier's work and agreed to write an introduction. To ensure that the work appeared for what it was-material that Khrushchev had compiled without the benefit of formal research-LIFE explained in a publisher's note that the book came "from various sources at various times and in various circumstances." It also insisted that the material...
...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...
Something Savage. As Crankshaw points out in his foreword, Khrushchev's remembrances constitute "an extraordinary, a unique historical document" that "takes us straight into what has been hitherto a forbidden land of the mind." In Khrushchev's words: "I tell these stories because, unpleasant as they may be, they contribute to the self-purification of our party. I address myself to the generations of the future in hope that they will avoid the mistakes of the past...
...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...
...English reporter Edward Crankshaw of The Observer learned about the Sino-Soviet jockeying of 1957 and 1958 from "Eastern European contacts." His account, on which Rendell's theories are based, is in his book Moscow and Peking...