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| | LRB | Neal Ascherson : Oo, Oo! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Taubman calls Khrushchev's 1956 speech 'the bravest and most reckless thing he ever did', and adds, justifiably, that 'the Soviet regime never fully recovered, and neither did he.' Addressed to a secret Congress session from which foreign delegates were excluded, it lasted four hours and shattered its totally unprepared audience. |
 | | Khrushchev knew that collective farming was a disaster in terms of food production, but could never face the obvious remedy: returning the land to the peasants and giving them proper cash incentives for crops and livestock. |
 | | Taubman has unearthed the story of Lyuba, the pretty widow of Khrushchev's son Leonid, who was arrested and sent to the camps for talking to foreign diplomats; her father-in-law pretended she had never existed, and her son Tolya became a homeless street child. |
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