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...chief negotiator of the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty and Ambassador to Moscow. Always a blunt and clear-eyed evaluator of Soviet intentions, Harriman recently returned to Moscow for a three-hour private discussion with Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, he discussed the state of U.S.-Soviet relations...
...presents a second installment of excerpts from Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, to be published in June by Little, Brown & Co. Based on tape recordings made by former Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev during the last years of his life, the book was translated and edited by TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott and has introductions by Soviet Affairs Expert Edward Crankshaw and TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter...
...published in June by Little, Brown & Co. Like its predecessor, Khrushchev Remembers, the new book is based on tapes dictated by the late Soviet leader during the years before his death in 1971 and is a historical document of enormous value. The tapes were translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, who has served as TIME correspondent in Eastern Europe. In the introduction to The Last Testament, Diplomatic Editor and former Moscow Bureau Chief Jerrold L. Schecter reveals for the first time the circumstances under which Khrushchev recorded his memoirs. These revelations are previewed in TIME's excerpts. In addition...
During the last four years of his life, Khrushchev dictated his reminiscences into a tape recorder. Transcriptions of the tapes, translated and edited by TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, formed the basis of Khrushchev Remembers, which was published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1970. TIME's new excerpts, from a sequel called Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, a Little, Brown book that will go on sale in June, are also taken from tape recordings made by Khrushchev...
...months after his death, additional tapes came into the hands of Time Inc. Like the tapes that were the basis for Khrushchev Remembers, these were also authenticated by voice-print analysis; transcripts of the recordings were again translated and edited by Correspondent Talbott. British Kremlinologist and Khrushchev Biographer Edward Crankshaw, who introduced and annotated the first volume of his memoirs, has provided a preface for the sequel. He writes: "The chief value of the memoirs (and they have, it seems to me, a very great historical value) lies not in the facts they offer but in the state of mind...