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The Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev In November 2000 the new Multimedia Lab of Media Services, Brown University, took possession of 39, eight inch, reel-to-reel audio tapes which held Nikita Khrushchev's oral memoirs. These tapes were not the originals, but copies made by Khrushchev's son, Sergei, from 1968 through 1971 and conveyed to the West for Time/Life publishers. These tapes are a valuable historical document for studying Soviet history as well as the history of many other countries at the time of Khrushchev. The tapes had been stored for years at the Harrison Institute, Columbia University, and went virtually unused because they were fragmented and disorganized. In our presentation, we will speak briefly about the history of Nikita Khrushchev's Memoirs to provide a better understanding of the Brown University Project and then tell you about the Project itself and its results. We will also describe our final product - a digital copy of the Memoirs, which has been returned to its original order and improved in terms of sound quality. At the end of this presentation we will show you a demonstration of the full version. Now, let's let Nikita Khrushchev himself explain why he composed his memoirs:
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