"The book contains two works of Roy Medvedev, Nikita Khrushchev. Years in power (1975) and Nikita Khrushchev. A Political Biography (2006). More than three decades separating these publications, create a very special stereo effect. In the first book, Khrushchev and his time - this is living history, hopes and disappointments experienced, enthusiastic and bitterness, admiration for his courageous international and domestic political reforms, and the indignation of his sometimes startling ignorance in a relatively simple economic, agricultural and theoretical problems. In the second book emotions are giving way more peaceful and balanced analysis of the Khrushchev era: The new generation of Soviet leaders was a generation of the XX Congress, and this gives added importance of the study of political biography of this, no doubt, one of the most prominent politicians of the XX century.