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Nikita Khrushchev with Prof. William Taubman Part 1
In part one of this two-part episode, Ben and Dr. William Taubman examine the improbable rise to power of 20th century Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev.
Dr. Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2003). He is also the author of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, Moscow Spring (with Jane Taubman) and Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War.
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In part one of this two-part episode, Ben and Dr. William Taubman examine the improbable rise to power of 20th century Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev.
Dr. Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2003). He is also the author of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, Moscow Spring (with Jane Taubman) and Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War.