Nikita Khrushchev with Prof. William Taubman Part 1

<p>In part one of this two-part episode, Ben and Dr. William Taubman examine the improbable rise to power of 20th century Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Dr. Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of <em>Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, </em>which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2003). He is also the author of <em>Gorbachev: His Life and Times, Moscow Spring </em>(with Jane Taubman) and <em>Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War.</em>&nbsp;</p>