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• W292156256 abstract "Dmitrii Shepilo v. The Kremlin's Scholar. A Memoir of Soviet Politics Under Stalin and Khrushchev. Edited by Stephen V. Bittner and translated by Anthony Austin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. xxvi, 444 pp. Cloth.Dmitrii Shepilov, the son of a rail worker and a self-made intellectual, came to the pinnacle of power in the 1950s as a Central Committee secretary, a candidate member of the CPSU Presidium and the Soviet Foreign Minister at a critical period of Soviet history when the country was grappling with its Stalinist legacy. His fall from grace was even more dramatic when, after a failed attempt to remove Khrushchev from power in summer 1957, Shepilov was stripped of all his political posts and sent to exile in Central Asia. He finished his days in obscurity working as archivist in the Soviet Council of Ministers editing historical documents for publications. It was during this time that Shepilov wrote his memoirs, now published in English by Yale University Press.The memoirs are dominated by two grand figures of Soviet history, Stalin and Khrushchev. The account of Stalin is riddled with ambiguities. There is undoubted personal admiration for Stalin, his intellectual and political capacity (Stalin allegedly read 300 pages per day), his simplicity in daily life seen in an old tunic, patched-up socks, almost constant isolation (p. 190). At the same time, Shepilov acknowledged the paranoid aspects of Stalin's personality, especially towards the end of his life. Stalin's mechanisms of power are illustrated by Shepilov's account of work on a new book on political economy. Stalin personally chose key people for important tasks and controlled them at key junctures to ensure the desired outcome. In this light, Shepilov's claims that the Great Purges of the late 1930s could have been outside of Stalin's immediate control seem implausible, to say the least (p. 41).All Stalin's deficiencies, however, pale in comparison with those of Khrushchev, the bete noire of Shepilov's memoirs. There is plenty of criticism of Khrushchev's policies, particularly in agriculture and foreign affairs. What comes across most pungently is, however, Shepilov's disdain of Khrushchev's personality and leadership style. In this respect, the book is unashamedly biased and remarkable for its omissions as much as for its revelations. After all, Khrushchev considered Shepilov as one of his confidants and even entrusted him with drafting parts of the famous Secret Speech at the XX Party Congress in 1956 (pp. …" @default.
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