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Based on the best-selling WEST'S BUSINESS LAW, this Alternate Edition continues to set the standard for making law accessible, interesting, and relevant to business students. With the perfect balance of tradition and innovation, this benchmark text brings to life the functions and inner-workings of business law in the real world. Rich with classic and modern cases that are summarized rather than excerpted, WEST'S BUSINESS LAW is the ideal text for students entering virtually any field of business. The text is supported by a comprehensive supplements and technology package. The text's proven approach combines with these resources to create a total teaching and learning system that is a clear choice for instructors who want to use summarized cases. This Tenth Edition refines and builds upon traditions established when the book was first introduced: authoritative content blended with cutting-edge coverage of contemporary topics and cases and an unmatched selection of innovative, high-quality support materials.

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Business Law 10 Edition .......2007-09-28

I like it a lot but it needs to put into simple word for a person like me who don't known any thing about law could understand it better. over all its a very good book. A lot of good information.

Lollie L. Jefferson

West's Business Law, tenth edition.......2007-09-06

The book came in a sealed cover. Although it looks brand new, it does say it is "used". You would never know it. It came in a timely manner and when I followed up w/the seller to see when it shipped, they sent me back an e-mail within a few hours. I would highly recommend using Off Campus Athens again.

Great Book To Keep.......2007-07-17

I have been through a few bad and good text books throughout my college career, but this had to be one of the best I ever picked up. It is easy to search through and actually makes the topics interesting to read.

Great reference book too.......2007-05-09

The book had great case studies but the best part were the on line review tests. I got 100 on the final!!

Excellent service and quality.......2007-03-19

Great! Product shipping status was easy to track, great communication via email regarding status of product. Product came much quicker than expected and was exactly as I expected! Thanks!

West's Business Law: Extended Case Study Approach (with 2006 Online Research Guide)

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West's Business Law: Extended Case Study Approach (with 2006 Online Research Guide)
Roger LeRoy Miller , Gaylord A. Jentz , and Frank B. Cross
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ASIN: 0324204825

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Based on the market-leading text, WEST'S BUSINESS LAW, this Extended Case version maintains the same tradition of comprehensiveness and authority, cutting-edge content, and student-friendly presentation. It is a classic blend of black letter law and student accessibility. The primary difference between this and WEST'S BUSINESS LAW is that this text is meets the needs of those who wish to really utilize a "true black-letter-law" case approach in their business law course. This Extended Case version offers excerpted cases, or cases in the language of the court, at the end of each chapter which are longer than those in most other business law texts. The placement of the cases at the end of the chapters also gives instructors, even those who are not interested in a heavy case study approach, greater flexibility regarding the degree of case analysis in their course.

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Good book.......2007-03-16

I needed this book for my MBA program. I found it well written and easy to read. Granted, its about law so its somewhat dry but I can see why it was chosen for the class and appears to be the de facto standard.

Rebind - West's Business Law: Extended Case Approach (with 2006 Online Research Guide)

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Rebind - West's Business Law: Extended Case Approach (with 2006 Online Research Guide)
Roger LeRoy Miller , Gaylord A. Jentz , and Frank B. Cross
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West's Business Law: A Case Study Approach with Student's Guide to Case Analysis and Online Research

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West's Business Law: A Case Study Approach with Student's Guide to Case Analysis and Online Research
Roger LeRoy Miller , Gaylord A. Jentz , and Frank B. Cross
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For those who wish to utilize a "true black-letter-law" case approach in their business law course, we are offering a unique, comprehensive package to support this endeavor. Excerpted cases, or cases in the language of the court, are included at the end of each chapter, and are longer than most business law texts in the market today. This unique case study methodology approach is supported by four main items: the textbook, online access to West Law cases, A Student's Guide to Case Analysis and Online Research, and a Case Analysis Guide for the Instructor. The Guide for the student helps them to understand how to do case briefings, how to analyze the cases and case problems and how to do online research. The Guide for the instructor summarizes the cases and provides sample questions and answers for each case. Students are also able to go online to view the full case from Westlaw.

West Business Law With the Online Research Guide

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Very good self-help book. Learn how to adapt to change through this handy guide.

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Buena manera de exponer hechos de la vida real.......2001-06-06

Hace una buena comparación a manera de fabula entre dos hombres y dos ratones, donde se presentan situaciones que vemos diariamente en el trabajo, en la universidad o en la casa con los familiares de uno. Es buen libro, pero muy corto, se podia haber extendido un poco mas!!

Que hacer ante el cambio.......2001-02-09

Quizas ha sido el libro que más rápido he leido y el que más me ha afectado mi vida, me ha enseñado que debo hacer cuando las cosas cambian... todo el que necesite saber que hacer ante los cambios debe leer este libro. Lo recomiendo ampliamente

Excelente.......2000-07-22

Necesitamos actuar rápido antes los cambios y quizas antes que estos sucedan....no tengas miedo....si necesitas inspiración lee este libro de inmediato, te aseguro que te gustará y te hará reflexionar.

Quien se ha llevado mi queso?.......2000-05-27

Este es un excelente libro para todos nosotros que vivimos en una sociedad de tantos cambios como esta. Pero lo mas importante es que nos ayuda a todos a enfrentar cualquier etapa de cambios en nuestras vidas en todas areas.

Se llevaron mi queso.......2000-04-30

Este pequeño gran libro está excelentemente bien escrito, en una forma clara y sencilla. Con una corta historia de cuatro personajes el autor nos presenta la problemática actual de las empresas familiares y no familiares: hay que planificar y adaptarse al cambio sin miedo.

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Hearty, simple, plentiful meals made with wholesome ingredients have earned national acclaim for the Norske Nook in Osseo, Wisconsin. Now the restaurant's founder, Helen Myhre, shares the recipes and philosophy behind her remarkable success.

Plain and unassuming, this dynamo of a cafe is popular not only with local visitors but also with tourists and celebrities across the country. For years cars from everywhere have lined Osseo's streets, but since Helen was featured on "NBC News" and appeared on "Late Night with David Letterman" to teach the host how to make a good pie, helicopters even land in the church parking lot bringing diners eager for honest home cooking and a glimpse of the real-life" Queen of Pies."

Now, at last, this entrepreneur, who "never expected I'd own a restaurant," has given us a compilation of her simple, reliable, time-honored recipes. More than a cookbook, this charming collection teaches such intangibles as the "feel" of a tender crust, the "look" of quality ingredients. In her no-nonsense, friendly, slightly sassy style -- a voice schooled in a lost era when farm women gathered in neighbors' kitchens to cook for threshing crews or prepare a Ladies' Aid supper in honor of harvest -- Helen delivers the soul of good, country cooking.

Included are breads made with Old World knowledge -- from kneading to "spanking"; soups both hearty and light -- and dumplings, of course; delicious, mouth-watering meats and thick, old-fashioned gravies; farm lunches and suppers; snacks and after-school treats; and pies, puddings, pickles and jellies, cookies, fry cakes...and so much more, including a selection of Scandinavian specialties.

And included here is her real recipe for the world-famous Sour Cream Raisin Pie that Helen even denied the New York Times.

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READ this c ookbook!.......2003-10-28

This book is fun to read, she has stories and tips throughout. If you are unsure how to cook the basics (roast, pies etc) this is a great starter book. All simple ingredients and easy instructions. Fun 'old farmer' stories. Great for bridal shower gift.

Excellent recipes -- fun stories.......1999-09-09

This is not just any old cook book, it is full of stories that are fun to read and add to your enjoyment in cooking and eating the delicious recipes. I would recommend it to anyone who likes to cook or to read about farm life in Wisconsin.

Great Recipes along with wonderful wit and humor.......1999-01-09

This is a very complete book with down-home recipes of every kind. The stories and anecdotes that accompany many of the recipes make this a great read while the recipe you've prepared is cooking. A have found few books that compare in simplicity with as much home-made influence. These recipes are so good you'll want to share them, but the book is a piece of work by itself.

Farm Recipes and Food Secrets from the Norske Nook

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Outstanding cooking and great eating

Farm Recipes and Food Secrets from the Norske Nook
Helen Myhre , and Mona Vold
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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When a small-town cafe in Osseo, Wisconsin, was praised for "some of the world’s best pies" in the best-selling guidebook Roadfood, Helen Myhre and the Norske Nook became famous! The same home-cooking tips Helen shared on "Late Night with David Letterman" she now shares with you. From breads to gravies, meats to jellies, and of course, that celebrated sour cream raisin pie, Myhre shows you how to bring a rich, thick slice of Midwest cooking into your kitchen.

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Outstanding cooking and great eating.......2001-08-07

There is a small-town cafe in Osseo, Wisconsin, called the Norske Nook which has earned a reputation for outstanding cooking and great eating. It was founded by Helen Myhre who, with the collaborative help of Mona Vold, now presents an outstanding cookbook that showcases all of the gustatory reasons why the Norske Nook became a regional Wisconsin success. This outstanding compendium of recipes is presented in sections devoted to Brads, Rolls and Sweet Dough Treats; Assorted Meats and Gravies; Fresh and Canned Treasures from the Garden and Wild Patches; Farm Meals; Pies, Tortes, Pan Desserts, and Puddings; Cakes, Bars, and Frostings; Cookies and Fry Cakes; Homemade Ice Creams and Toppings; Old-Fashioned Beverages and New-Fangled Punches; Scandinavian Specialities; Good Kitchen Tools and Mail-Order Products. No personal or community library Wisconsin oriented cookbook collection can be considered complete without the prominent inclusion of Helen Myhre and Mona Vold's Farm Recipes And Food Secrets From The Norske Nook!

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Violin making instructions.......2005-08-17

This was a very useful book for the beginning violin luthier with simple instructions and line drawings.

Depends on your goals.......2001-10-20

This book is directed, not to the amateur violin-builder who admires and aspires to emulate the fine craft of violin-making on a modest scale, but rather to the 'amateur' in the sense of someone who is less interested in immersing themselves in the craft and more interested in building a fiddle at all, somehow.

If you are the type of person who is affected by concern about how to do something 'right' (i.e. following some variant of traditional or professional practice) than this is the wrong book for you and you should invest in Johnson/Courtnall if you can at all afford to (really, never was money better-spent), otherwise Strobel and/or Buchanan are better choices.

On the other hand, if you just want to get a fiddle built with as little fuss as possible, and without minding taking some shortcuts here and there, then this little book will certainly encourage you on that journey. The approach in this book requires fewer tools and less acquisition of new skills, and goes out of its way to ensure the reader is not daunted by any high-fallutin' ideas of high craft, just go to it and get it done.

Violin Making - A guide for the amateur.......2000-02-28

Being a true amateur - I have begun building a violin making this book - having never even touched a violin - it will be an interesting experience. My rating of the book - is that it is quite good, so far. It would benefit from some actual pictures to go with the dialog - as it would be nice to see an actual picture of what you are trying to build rather than a rough sketch. The book is dependent on rough illustrations to guide the amateur. The templates are very good but you do need to 'smooth' some of the templates to match the final violin shape. Not all the components are there, for example the tail piece for securing the strings is not mentioned at all, as is the Bow, so I assume these items need to be purchases separately. Before you start it is best to read the book right through - otherwise some of the steps given earlier on in the book make no sense - in this regard it would be helpful to give a hint as to why "you must do it this way" - anyway overall it is a very good book.

Excellent step-by-step for amateur.......1999-04-14

since I would not now what it takes to be a professional. But as I started with out a clue, using Foxfire book which gives some dimensions but no specifics, this book diagrams and describes how to build the forms to tuning...gives tracable drawings in the back for all the pieces.

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A World Tour

The Unadorned Truth

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Statesman, 1953-1964

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ASIN: 0271029358

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This is the third and last volume of the only complete and fully reliable English-language version of the memoirs of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

In the first two volumes, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2005 and 2006, respectively, Khrushchev tells the story of his rise to power and his part in the fight against Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. He also discusses agriculture, the housing problem, and other issues of domestic policy, as well as defense and disarmament. This volume is devoted to international affairs. Khrushchev describes his dealings with foreign statesmen and his state visits to Britain, the United States, France, Scandinavia, India, Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, and Indonesia.

In the first part, Khrushchev talks about relations between the Soviet Union and the Western powers. Of particular interest is his perspective on the Berlin, U-2, and Cuban missile crises. The second part focuses on the Communist world--above all, the deterioration of relations with China and the tensions in Eastern Europe, including relations with Tito's Yugoslavia, Gomulka's Poland, and the 1956 Soviet intervention in Hungary. In the third part, Khrushchev discusses the search for allies in the Third World.

The Appendixes contain biographies, a bibliography and a chronology, and also the reminiscences of Khrushchev's chief bodyguard about the visit to the United Nations in 1960 at which the famous "shoe-banging" incident occurred--or, perhaps, did not occur.

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A World Tour.......2007-08-14

Be warned: with two companion volumes, these memoirs are a major undertaking for the average person. However, this book is essential reading for those with a keen interest in 1950s-60s world political history.

The editors have done a very nice job here with thorough chapter notes, chronological listings of Mr. Khrushchev's comings and goings, and excellent references to further readings.

Nikita Khrushchev was not a brilliant writer of prose (actually the book was dictated), but this is his straightforward account of his own foreign policy thoughts as a major world leader at a very critical time.

The Unadorned Truth.......2007-07-14

Never one to mince words or gloss over difficulties, Nikita Khrushchev tells everything he remembers of international events during his time in power. His take on conflicts with the Western powers gives a refreshingly different approach from all the Western propaganda that filled our airwaves and newspapers at that time. From Gary Powers to the Cuban Missile Crisis, he calls all these events as he saw them.

This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in the history of that time, from 1953 through 1964.

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar (1918-1945)

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Can history repeat itself?
"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar (1918-1945)
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
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Nikita Khrushchev's proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that "we will bury you" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career the motivation for Khrushchev's actions wasn't always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev's memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was "we will bury colonialism"). This is the first volume of three in what will be the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In this volume Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and then Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. He vividly portrays life in Stalin's inner circle and among the generals who commanded the Soviet armies. Khrushchev's sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the value of this unique personal and historical document. Included among the appendices is Sergei Khrushchev's account of how the memoirs were created and smuggled abroad during his father's retirement.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971) was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

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Can history repeat itself?.......2006-09-25

Last week we listened to the `messages' given in the UN by many heads of states.
Hugo Chavez president of Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, in particular, have been quite interesting and extremely filled most of us with fun and enjoyment.

They have spoken with great presumptuousness.

Their intention has been to insult and accuse their opponent head of state - USA President Bush, and they did it in such a way that their words, taken literally, sounded innocent.
Those who are not familiar with the background and meaning of `being garrulous' will find nothing odd about their sentences, until they could get the hidden implications.

Perhaps we should `exhume' one simple example of what we are talking about.
During the Cuban missile crises in the early sixties of the twentieth century, Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, used to pound his desk at the UN General Assembly to interrupt British and American heads of states from giving their speeches. The frustrated NK even pulled off and waved his shoe and banged it on his desk in front of shocked and amused world delegates occupying the large UN hall.
Nevertheless, the annals of history has recorded that in 1964 Brezhenev ousted NK.
Twenty-seven years later the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics was dissolved after some seventy-five years, since the Russian Revolution in 1917, of acting as the second principal world super power.

You see, in the tug of will, the point is not in pronouncing words of strength, because at the end of the day what really counts is `Who' is able to bind the economic noose tighter until decided to pull the rope.

This memoirs is not a Mrs Love's poem that we are talking of. This is a tough fight of crucial struggle for world supremacy; this is the tug of war, like a Greek salad, if one is not able to notice a dropped olive seed lurking beneath the cheese and the green succulent lettuce, and if one cannot realize how strong and durable the seed is, one will lose one's tooth.

"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters.......2006-02-18

a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."

W.H. Auden's aphorism forms an appropriate framework for reviewing The Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume I. Although the Memoirs have more Don Quixote than Sancho Panza they are compelling, informative, and insightful.

Volume I consists of two sections: Khrushchev's Memoirs from the early days of the Russian Revolution through the end of the Second World War and Sergei Khrushchev's (Nikita's son) essay on the creation of the memoirs and the decades long struggle to see it published in the USSR.

Khrushchev's memoirs are fascinating for a number of reasons. As set out in Sergei's essay, these Memoirs were dictated and not written. As a result, the Memoirs have a very conversational tone whcih, for me, brought the Memoirs to life. Khrushchev had a prodigious memory and his Memoirs bear this out. Each chapter of Khrushchev's life is rich with the type of detail that one doesn't expect in a memoir written decades later. The bulk of Volume I is devoted to World War II. Khrushchev served as a member of the Military Council and as Commissar in the Ukraine (a political hierarchy that paralleled the military chain of command). Khrushchev played a critical role in the Ukraine during the war, lived and worked through the horrendous battle of Stalingrad, the enormous victory at Kursk, and the liberation of Kiev. Khrushchev is at his narrative best when describing these events. At the same time, Khrushchev does not shy away from discussing the chaos and confusion that reigned at the beginning of the war. Stalin (rightfully I think) bears the brunt of this criticism but Khrushchev did not shy away from brutal assessments of soldiers and political leaders who displayed cowardice or put their own interests above those of the state. Interestingly, Khrushchev does stint in his praise for Marshall Zhukov, despite the fact that Khrushchev had Zhukov removed from a top party post in the 1950s when he became a threat to Khrushchev's power base.

The Memoirs are fascinating not only for what is said but also what is left unsaid. George Orwell once wrote that "[a]utobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful." There is nothing to distrust in these Memoirs as they relate to Khrushchev's external life, most of which can easily be confirmed by the available records. However, missing from the Memoirs (at least in this Volume) is a detailed examination of Khrushchev's inner life. We know he survived the purges and we know he began to question Stalin's actions. Khrushchev writes convincingly of Stalin's mistakes but we never quite find out what he knew and when. Khrushchev was (seemingly) at the time a devoted servant to Stalin. He participated in party purges and in these Memoirs he ruefully acknowledges his then belief that many of his colleagues were enemies of the state. Yet this was the same Khrushchev who took a tremendous leap of faith in revealing Stalin's `crimes' at the famous Party Congress in 1956. What is missing is some indication of the inner reflections (the Sancho Panza-like reflections if you will) on the survival mechanisms that led an intelligent and clearly decent person to suspend disbelief for such a long period of time. However, Sergei Khrushchev's fascinating essay on the fight to publish these Memoirs leads to some valuable insights.

Sergei's essay is an intriguing story in its own right. The Kremlin put pressure on the family to get Nikita to stop writing. They were followed and interrogated by the KGB. Khrushchev seethed at these attempts to suppress his memoirs. Khrushchev defended his rights as a Soviet citizen and fulminated against these affronts to his dignity and self respect. There is no small amount of irony in reading about Khrushchev's struggle with the Politburo. Despite the fact that he was primarily responsible for "the thaw", Khrushchev also managed to crack down on artists and writers who he thought "went too far". The illicit export of a copy of the manuscript placed him in the same company as such writers as Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, and Grossman.

More importantly, however, the essay portrays Khrushchev's struggle as one compelled in part by his sense of dignity and self-respect. The historical record and the Memoirs are filled with references to Khrushchev and other leaders abasing themselves before Stalin. I think Sergei's essay goes a long way toward fleshing out (at least implicitly) Important parts of Khrushchev's internal life that are missing from the Memoirs. Khrushchev was a figure of great substance and no small amount of talent (despite some glaring failures during his premiership). He was a man who with only four years of formal education but he had enough talent and ambition to lead a nation. But along the way he had to endure almost daily humiliations at the hands of his `master'. These humiliations, along with his participation in the development of the cult of Stalin all constitute part of what may be called `the sin of survival'. Although not uncommon in Gulag memoirs they strike a jarring note in the memoirs of the leader of a nation. Khrushchev's actions at the 20th-Party Congress and his fight during his last days to preserve his right to publish seem, to me at least, to be an attempt to reclaim some part of that dignity that was voluntarily (if by necessity) forfeited years ago.

Nikita's Memoirs, together with Sergei's essay, provide a profoundly interesting and informative examination of one of the 20th-Cenntury's most complex and misunderstood leaders. The Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev Volume I should be required reading for anyone with an interest in the history of the USSR and its place in world history.

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964

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N.S. Looks Back
"What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev , and Sergei Khrushchev
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ASIN: 0271028610

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This is the second volume of three in what will be the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his story up to the close of World War II. In the first section of this second volume, he covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation of the immediate aftermath of the war to Stalin's death, the subsequent power struggle, and the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to Khrushchev's recollections and thoughts about various domestic and international problems. In the second and third sections, he recalls the virgin lands and other agricultural campaigns and his dealings with nuclear scientists and weapons designers. He also considers other sectors of the economy, specifically construction and the provision of consumer goods, administrative reform, and questions of war, peace, and disarmament. In the last section, he discusses the relations between the party leadership and the intelligentsia.

Included among the appendixes are the notebooks of Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, Khrushchev's wife.

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N.S. Looks Back.......2007-06-09

Not a book for one trying to obtain a concise balanced history of one of the more important figures of the last century.

But wonderful for anyone deeply interested in what was ticking in the mind of a top official of the USSR who served with, and immediately after, the tyrant Stalin. When done reading this book, one can only be amazed that the Communists held power for as long as they did given the flawed system they so resolutely defended, which failed at adequately sheltering, clothing, and feeding the common citizen.

Khrushchev was at heart a mostly good man (he did serve at the murderous Stalin's knee and did arrange the death of his own rival, Beria). He wanted to, by strong management, energize the economic command and control system devised by Lenin and, thereby, bring a better life (measured against America) to the workers and peasants. His energetic, but ultimately futile, work in agriculture takes up much of this memoir.

The book is enhanced by the writings provided in its appendix by an insightful Anatoly Strelyany and a very human Mrs. Khrushchev, as well as by the excellent detailed chapter notes provided by Sergei Khrushchev -- a most able editor and the type of son all major historical figures would be blessed to have.

"What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty.......2007-03-10

what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!"

Blaise Pascal's words seem an apt way to begin a review of Volume II of Nikita S. Khrushchev's memoirs, "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964" Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was a larger than life figure who commanded the world's attention during his more than ten year reign as leader of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev was an extraordinarily complex man with great talent and energy who was also full of internal contradictions and conflicts. The child of peasants, Khrushchev had only four years of formal education. Yet he rose up from the ranks of the proletariat (perhaps the only Soviet leader with true proletarian roots) to become the leader of one of the superpowers of the 20th century. He grew to power during Stalin's reign of terror by being an active participant and collaborator in the Court of the Red Tsar. Yet, this same man's denunciation of Stalin at the Soviet Party Congress in 1956 and the subsequent return of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag marked an incredible change in Soviet life.

The essayist John Berger once said that "autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form." As I read "Reformer" I could not help but notice the feeling of ineffable sadness, a "sense of being alone" hanging like a low cloud over an aging, isolated man as he dictates his Memoirs. "Reformer", is in one sense the record of a proud man defending his life. The individual reader will have to come to his own verdict about that life; a short review is not the place for an exegesis on the triumphs and tribulations of such a complicated man. However, no matter how one views Khrushchev these Memoirs provide a fascinating look into the life and times of this extraordinarily complex `simple' man.

Volume 1, "Commissar 1918-1945" was a straight forward chronological account of Khrushchev's early years and dramatic rise to various positions of leadership during the tumultuous reign of Josef Stalin. Volume 2 continues that chronological account through the death of Stalin and Khrushchev's consolidation of power. However, the editor (Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevitch's son) has carved out Khrushchev's reflection on his foreign policy and saved that for Volume 3, due to be published in April, 2007. The remainder of Volume 2 (about half of the book) covers Khrushchev's reflections on various domestic issues. Khrushchev spends a lot of time on military/defense spending, the planned vitalization of Soviet agriculture, his desire to improve the domestic life of Soviet citizens through increased production of consumer goods and better house, and, finally, his views on Soviet art and culture.

Of those areas, Khrushchev's reflections on the USSR's military-industrial complex are likely to be of the most interest for American readers. Khrushchev understood that the massive amounts of money being poured into the military would have a drastic impact on the Soviet economy, a theory proven by later events. He suggested increasing the USSR's missile defense systems while proposing dramatic cuts in the strength of Soviet Navy and Army. He indicates that this economy measures would have enabled Soviet budget planners to devote more time and attention to the consumer sector of the economy. Khrushchev's suggestion that the ongoing economic drain on the Soviet economy caused by military spending would have disastrous consequences in the long term was prophetic. Unfortunately these proposed cuts cost him the support of the military. Believing that the future of the USSR would be guaranteed by agricultural self-sufficiency he promoted scheme after scheme to increase production. Unfortunately most of these schemes turned out to be more than a bit silly and they all failed in a very public fashion.

Khrushchev's reflection on the Soviet economy and agriculture are also interesting but this reader sometimes had trouble following some of the micro-details about corn and wheat productions. The footnotes and brief biographical sketches of the people referenced in the Memoirs are helpful but I still felt a bit lost in a maze of details about maize.

Khrushchev's reflection on his dealing with the Soviet arts' community was also fascinating. The period of relative relaxation of censorship came to be known as "The Thaw" but Khrushchev's strong preference for "socialist realism" still created quite a bit of tension between the forces of the government and the arts intelligentsia.

The Memoirs close with excerpts from the diaries of Khrushchev's widow, Nina Petrovna Khrushceva, from the time of Nikita's death in 1971 until shortly before her own death. Those excerpts are as touching as they are informative.

As noted, I cannot presume to tell any prospective reader what judgments they should make about the life of Nikita S. Khrushchev. He is far too complex a figure to be reduced to a ten-second sound bite or a 900 word essay. I can state with certainty that anyone interested in the life of Khrushchev or in Soviet affairs should read his memoirs. I think the first two volumes are of great historical value in anyone's examination of the word in the middle of the 20th century. I very much look forward to the publication of Volume 3.

Highly recommended. L. Fleisig

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