ABSTRACT
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev has been the subject of several biographies, including one written by his son Sergey, a resident in the United States. Khrushchev was a restless man of great energy, and in several respects a more dangerous adversary for the Western powers than the more predictable I. V. Stalin. Many of Khrushchev's colleagues had reservations about the plan, which contained typical elements of any Khrushchev scheme - great enthusiasm, the desire for an immediate return on investment, a radical transformation of Soviet agricultural practices, and a general lack of foresight about the likely results. Stalin's victims were said to be in the millions, and Khrushchev acknowledged that the late Soviet leader had signed the death warrants for thousands. The ebullient Khrushchev went into retirement under fairly generous conditions, and officially became a non-person, disappearing almost totally from the Soviet press.
