LIFE SAYS KHRUSHCHEV WANTS HIS ARTICLES TO HELP PARTY

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: November 15, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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Nikita S. Khrushchev, who
was ousted as Soviet Premier
In 1964, was described yester.
day as having offered his rem.
iniscences for publication to
help improve the Soviet Com=
munist party and to guide fu-
tuure generations, according to l
an announcement in Life mag-
azine's issue dated Nov. 20.
The material is to be pub-
lished in Life under the title,
"Khrushchev Remembers," in
dts following four issues and as
a 275,000-word book on Dec.
21 by. Little, Brown & Com-
pany. It is to be presented en-
tirely "in the first person," Life
said.
Life published a statement
attributed to Mr. Khrushchev
that said:
"I tell these stories because,
unpleasant as they may be,
they contribute to the self-
purification of our party.
"What I say is not slander,
and it's not malicious gossip.
I speak. as a man who stood
for'many years at $talin's side.
As a witness to those years,
I address myself to the gener-
ations of the future in hope
that they will avoid the mis-
takes of the past."
Time Inc., which own both
Life and the book company,
continued to refuse to discuss
the origin of the material. In
Moscow, Mr. Khrushchev's wife
was quoted as having said on
Nov. 7 that her husband had
not written 'any memoirs.
The next day, the "remem
brances" were described by
Pierre Lazareff, publisher of
France-Soir in Paris, which is
to run excerpts, as recorded on
tapes in Mr. Khrushchev's
voice.
The National' Broadcasting
Company in 1967 broadcast a
program it said had been
derived from about five hours
of such recordings. Some
sources said Time had obtained
about 20 hours of tapes.
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