William Taubman.
WILLIAM TAUBMAN
KHRUSHCHEV: THE MAN AND HIS ERA (2003)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2004.
Nikita Khrushchev (born 1894) was First Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist party from 1953 to 1964. He astonished the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
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William Taubman (born 1941) is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. He obtained his BA from Harvard University, and his MA and PhD from Columbia University, His biography of Nikita Kruschev won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004. He is the son of Nora Stern, a teacher, and Howard Taubman, who was a critic for both music and theatre at the New York Times.
