Book excerpt: "A Different Russia" by Marvin Kalb
The veteran CBS and NBC journalist writes about covering the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and ...
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New Moscow: Khrushchev Fired
Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as head of the Soviet Communist Party, on March 14 1953, just nine days after Stalin’s ... new party leader Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Alexey Kosygin ...
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Nikita Khrushchev’s Son Watched his Father Lose the Space Race. 50 Years After the Moon Landing, He Holds No Grudge
Named after the wormwood herb that grew ... it was an embarrassment for Moscow and for Nikita Khrushchev personally. In fact, the Soviet leader effectively shrugged. “He was surprised that ...
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Khrushchev’s domestic position
Khrushchev was disliked within Russia for his ‘Secret Speech’ in which he criticised the communist regime and many of its leaders. Not only did the speech alienate hard-line Stalinists ...