“Within the great drama of the Sino-Soviet struggle,” says EDWARD CRANKSHAW, “the Moscow Conference of I960 in its secret proceedings offers us a glimpse of the beginnings of a far greater drama — the transformation of Communism” Mr. Crankshaw, a leading authority on the U.S.S.R., is the author of CRACKS IN THE KREMLIN WALL.
In 1941 EDWARD CRANKSHAW went to Russia with a British military mission, remaining there for two years. He returned in 1947 for the Foreign Ministers’ Conference and has been there repeatedly since. Out of his travels and contacts within or an the fringes of the Soviet empire have come his books — CRACKS IN THE KREMLIN WALL is the best known — and such patient and revealing disclosures as this which follows.
Who are the men who support Khrushchev in his leadership in Russia, and to what extent is his power more limited and more precarious than that of Stalin? EDWARD CRANKSHAW, who comes to grips with these guestwns in this article, is recognized here and in Russia as a leading authority on the U.S.S.R. His earlier books, CRACKS IN THE KREMLIN WALL and RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIANS, have grown out of his residence in that country, and his latest visit was made earlier this year.
The enormous growth of Russian industry has built up Soviet business tycoons, and in this penetrating paper EDWARD CRANKSHAW shows how the power of these industrialists has been curbed and redirected by Khrushchev. Mr. Crankshaw is recognized here and in Britain as a leading authority on the U.S.S.R. His earlier books have grown out of his residence in that country, and he is on his way back to Moscow as this article goes to press.
What is the Kremlin’s present design for the Russian Empire and to what extent does it differ from the designs of the Czars? For an answer to this question, perhaps the most ominous in international affairs, we turn to EDWARD CRANKSHAW,widely read and widely respected here and in Britain as an authority on Russia.
An English authority on Soviet affairs, EDWARD CRANKSHAWwas in Warsaw when the Satellite Revolution boiled over; he had seen it coming and wished to be on the spot when the break occurred. The article which follows was written in the Polish capital and, coming to us airmail, was the last piece of copy in this issue to go to press. Mr. Crankshaw is the author of three books widely read on both sides of the Atlantic: Russia and the Russians, Cracks in the Kremlin Wall, and his recent Russia Without Stalin.
The relations between Red China awl Soviet Russia, carried on as they are behind an opaque screen, are subject to a variety of interpretations. EDWARD CRANKSHAW, the English author, who here gives us his personal con elusions, has been the London Observer’s Russian expert since 1947 and also broadcasts on Russian matters for the BBC. He has made several trips to Moscow over the years, and from his experiences have come his two authoritative volumes, Russia and the Russians and Cracks in the Kremlin Wall. His latest book, Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny, has recently been published by Viking.
In the summer of 1955 EDWARD CRANKSHAW, the English author, flew over for his first visit to Russia in eight years. He had hern there three times before, and from his experiences in Moscow during the war and after had come his two authoritative volumes, Russia and the Russians and Cracks in the Kremlin Wall. Now once again doors were unbarred and he was free to look about, to talk with people, and to male comparisons with the past,
On the eve of the Geneva Conference, Marshal Bulganin, in a speech to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, acknowledged the shortcomings of the Soviet industrial organization. For an appraisal of Bulganin’s far-reaching report we turn to EDWARD CRANKSHAW,the English author and historian. Mr. Crankshaw first visited Russia as a member of the British Military Mission to Moscow; he went back again in 1947 as a writer for the London Observer; and it was in the course of these tours of duty that he assembled the source material for his two readable and authoritative books, Russia and the Russians and Cracks in the Kremlin Wall.