Khrushchev

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Michael Dobbs
• Narrated By Bob Walter

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis.

Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Frederick Kempe
• Narrated By Paul Hecht

A former Wall Street Journal editor and the current president and CEO of the Atlantic Council, Frederick Kempe draws on recently released documents and personal interviews to re-create the powder keg that was 1961 Berlin. In Cold War Berlin, the United States and the Soviet Union stand nose to nose, with the possibility of nuclear war just one misstep away.

K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Peter Carlson
• Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted. He told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed coeds in an Iowa home-economics class, and ogled Shirley MacLaine. He befriended and offended a cast of characters including Nelson Rockefeller and Marilyn Monroe. The trip took place in the 50s, with the shadow of the hydrogen bomb hanging over his visit like the Sword of Damocles.

Nikita Khrushchev: The Leaders Series (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (55 mins)
• By Alan Reid
• Narrated By Stephen Thorne, Full Cast

Nikita Krushchev: a miner's son, a rough and simple peasant, a revolutionary, an ardent party worker, and eventually one of the two most powerful men in the world. A cheerful figure at ease among cornfields, or on a factory floor; or hostile at the United Nations, taunting and accusing the West. On a state visit to the USA, he famously said, "We will bury you"; at the UN he once removed a shoe to bang it on the desk to make a point.

C-SPAN Booknotes: William Taubman's Khrushchev, Part 1

• NONE (56 mins)

Remembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, he managed to retain his humanity. The ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left his contradictory stamp on his country and the world.

C-SPAN Booknotes: William Taubman's Khrushchev, Part 2

• NONE (59 mins)

In the second of a two part interview, Booknotes host Brian Lamb continues his discussion with William Taubman, author of Kruschev: The Man and His Era. Remembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century.

Fresh Air, Tom Blanton, Sergei Khrushchev and Steve Reich

• NONE (1 hr)

Khrushchev

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Edward Crankshaw
• Narrated By John Mawson

This is the story of the rise and fall of one man against the background of his country’s history - bloody, tumultuous, yet immensely significant - since the revolution in 1917. Nikita Sergei Khrushchev was born in 1894 at Kalinovka where Great Russia borders the Ukraine. He was the child of peasants driven from the land by poverty. His grandfather had been born a serf; his father was a landless worker travelling to the coal fields of the Donetz Valley in the winter, in spring returning to the land.

Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Bob Schieffer
• Narrated By Bob Schieffer

One of the most admired newsmen in America, Bob Shieffer has won six Emmy Awards and been recognized by the National Press Foundation as the Broadcaster of the Year. The chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, Schieffer is also The New York Times best-selling author of This Just In. Now in this fascinating audiobook, Schieffer shares his favorite memories from the award-winning news broadcast Face the Nation, in celebration of the program's 50-year anniversary.