Khrushchev was under criticism from his own government for his domestic policies. His agricultural programme was a failure and the country was forced to import increasing amounts of wheat from ...

When asked what would have happened, if on November 22 1963 Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated in place of John F Kennedy, Douglas-Home replied that he did not know how the whole course of ...

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 emerged as the new Communist leader in 1955 and immediately contributed to this new hope. Khrushchev encouraged a policy of ‘de-Stalinisation’ within the Communist Party and ...

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 ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb ...