What is the setting of Khrushchev by William Taubman?

Khrushchev is set in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), primarily from the 1930s through the 1971. As material on Khrushchev's early years, from his birth in 1894 until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, is sparse, little attention is given to the early period, although the author attempts to give a feel for the tsarist society against which Khrushchev and his colleagues revolted. Kiev and Moscow are the key loci of action before World War II, then we follow Khrushchev around Ukraine.