Nikita Khrushchev. The creator thaw

""Nikita Khrushchev. The creator of the thaw "continues the Topic of Khrushchevsky, which has begun in the previous book" Topic "of the decade 1953-1964, the most successful, according to the author and not only him, the period in the history of Russia of the twentieth century. The book in a light, living language tells about 1957-1960, about accomplishments, problems, failures and victories, who met in the path of people who took up the hard work of the country"s transformation. The book will turn out to be interesting not only to specialists, but first of all to numerous lovers of their native history.
N.S. Khrushchev began with the economy, proposed moving from a centralized system to a more mobile - decentralized, so far, at the regions level, which caused a sharp rejection of the Moscow bureaucracy, which largely lost power and the privileges that were due to it. In the same period N.S. Khrushchev formulated and published a military doctrine of "defense sufficiency", which ensured the security of the country in conditions of the limit of resources. He proposed focusing on creating a nuclear missile shield that guaranteed the destruction of the US infrastructure and their allies in NATO and excluded the possibility of their attack on the Soviet Union. At the same time, a serious reduction in the usual armed forces began in order to invest the released funds in the development of the economy. The liberalization of the political system began, as a result of which the “young intellectual shoot” went: in poetry and prose, music and fine art. It was then that we first heard the names of Yevtushenko and Voznesensky, Shnitsky and Rodion Shchedrin, unknown and Sidur, who glorified Russia in the second half of the twentieth century