About the book: 2008 / Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is a man who left a noticeable mark not only in Soviet but also in world history. The secret report, which marked the beginning of the exposure of Stalin's personality cult, split the country, making him a hero in the eyes of some, and a traitor and upstart in the eyes of others. What was his actual role in the mass repressions in Moscow and Ukraine, in the restoration of the national economy of the USSR after the Great Patriotic War, in everything that his era is remembered for? The author, a famous American historian, carefully and scrupulously reconstructed the entire life path of this extraordinary person, collecting enormous, in many ways unique material, including archival documents, as well as recordings of conversations with people who knew Khrushchev well at different periods of his life. Book was published in the United States in 2003 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize that same year. Second edition. Translation based on the edition: William Taubman. Khruschev: The Man and His Era. New York - London, W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.