Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern publishing events have aroused more intense speculation than the appearance of Former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's reminiscences in LIFE, excerpted from a forthcoming book to be published by Little, Brown entitled Khrushchev Remembers. The story behind the story-how the book reached the West-has been the subject of hundreds of newspaper articles. Khrushchev himself denounced the reminiscences, though in curiously muffled style. LIFE's confidence in their authenticity was backed up last week in two stories by the Moscow correspondents of the New York Times and the Washington Post. The Post story quoted "unofficial...
...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 be referred to as "reminiscences," implying the informality of its preparation, rather than...
...inaccuracies. Stalin's daughter Svetlana (who defected from the Soviet Union in 1967 and is now Mrs. William Peters of West Scottsdale, Ariz.) told Salisbury that Stalin almost always called her "Svetochka," a very intimate variation of her name, rather than the affectionate but less intimate "Svetlanka," as Khrushchev remembers. It is likely, however, that Khrushchev referred to her as he used to address her, "Svetlanka...
Family Link. Mrs. Peters also disputed Khrushchev's recollection that Stalin had developed a passion for cowboy movies; she admitted, though, that she saw little of her father during the last few years of his life, the period to which Khrushchev was referring...
...other errors involve mistaken dates of decades ago. Khrushchev remembers dinners hosted by Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda, which he dates at a time when she had already died. Crankshaw and Translator-Editor Strobe Talbott state in the forthcoming book that Khrushchev confused some facts. They debated whether to correct him, says Talbott, but decided to "allow him to speak in his own words," even when he was "telescoping events"; in some cases, they point out errors in footnotes...