When the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, millions in the country wept with grief. Many millions more wept, unsure of why. For almost three decades, the Soviet people ...

Another man, not exactly a man of peace, but one who preached peaceful coexistence traveled to Egypt and Scandinavia in 1964, but on October 15th, the political career of Nikita Khrushchev was ...

Pie Chamberlain: The great showman of the East, Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by man of less color and vitality, the generation of clerks and technocrats. Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as ...

The world's most dangerous secret lies between them.

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

Nikita Khrushchev continued to aid in the spread of communism around the world and Kennedy wanted to show the American public he would not be bullied by the Soviet premier. John F. Kennedy ...